Remember, chip select pins need to be outputs!

I was struggling with (very) unreliable file reads and writes while trying to get FatFs running on an Arduino Mega 2560 board, with the standard Arduino Ethernet Shield. The ethernet connection was continually dropping and reconnecting as well.

What was missing? I hadn’t set the pin used for chip select on the SD card to be an output. As soon as I added that, my file operations became 100% reliable, and my ethernet connection stopped bouncing. Excellent!

(I’ll try and package up what we needed to get FatFs working, but it might not be today)

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