F411 SPI5 Tx/Rx Not Triggered

[djsg]

Hi,

Following your blog, I have created a project for my F411 PCB board, where SPI5 is used for MCU to talk to SD card module.
I run my code and even cannot do the mounting, always getting error code 3.
So I did something like this: continuously trying f_mount
while(1) { fres = f_mount(&FatFs, "", 1); //1=mount now if (fres == FR_OK) { break; } sprintf(log_str, "f_mount error (%i)\r\n", fres); HAL_UART_Transmit(&huart2, (uint8_t *)log_str, strlen(log_str), 0xFFFF); }
After first error code 3, subsequently I got error code 1.
I used scope to monitor SPI5 SCK signal when running that infinite loop, it was flat.
However, if I just continuously call HAL_SPI_Transmit(&hspi5, tx_data, 4, 200);, I can see SCK signal.

In my main.h, I do have #define SD_SPI_HANDLE hspi5
Can anyone shed some light on what I have missed?

[kiwih]

Perhaps start with a simpler application of the SPI - talk to a basic component or just send random packets and measure them with the scope?