Logging to a file on USB on RoboRio

ozdave · February 28, 2019, 12:42am

Hi All

Would like to log to a file on a USB drive on the RoboRio, but not sure how to address the drive.

When a USB drive is plugged in, how do we create/write to a file on it?

Thanks and regards

David

lucas.alvarez96 · February 28, 2019, 5:49am

The answer to your question is going to depend mainly on your programming language, however it’ll be the same as opening and reading/writing to a file on a regular computer.

To access the USB drive, you’ll have to search for the mount point on the roboRIO filesystem. In 2015/2016, any USB drive connected to the roboRIO was automatically mounted under /media, so I would start by checking there to see if anything new pops up when connecting a flash drive. To actually access the roboRIO filesystem (to find where the drive mounts), you’d have to connect to it via SSH.

system · February 28, 2020, 5:50am

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