USB Host MassStorage

Hi, maybe you can help me out here.

I am simply trying to write some data to a usb stick connected to the usb host port on my g80. I am using NETMF v 4.3.8.1. As a matter of fact, data gets only written to my device, when I unmount the drive. I came up with the following code, which unmounts my drive after writing my data and re-mounts it to recycle th whole process. Is this realy the way to do it as is seems a bit akward to permanently remount a drive when simply wanting to provide permanent write access throughout the the whole application lifecycle?

Thanks and best regards!

using GHI.Usb.Host;
using Microsoft.SPOT;
using Microsoft.SPOT.IO;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;

namespace Altbrot.MPX2FRSKY.Manager
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Used to detect and write telemtrie to mass storage device
    /// </summary>
    public class MassStorageManager
    {
        private static MassStorage _usbStorage;
        private static bool _shouldStop = false;
        private static AutoResetEvent _evt = new AutoResetEvent(false);
        
        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes this instance.
        /// </summary>
        public static void Init()
        {
            RemovableMedia.Insert += new InsertEventHandler(RemovableMedia_Insert);

            // Unlike SD Card detection, the USB Host Controller sends an
            // event when a Mass Storage device is plugged-in.
            Controller.MassStorageConnected += (sender, massStorage) =>
            {
                _usbStorage = massStorage;
                
                Thread remountThread = new Thread(RemountThread);
                remountThread.Start();
            };
            
            Controller.Start();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Remounts the device.
        /// </summary>
        private static void RemountThread()
        {
            try
            {
                while (!_shouldStop)
                {
                    _usbStorage.Mount();
                    _evt.Reset();
                    _evt.WaitOne();
                    Thread.Sleep(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Data.TelemtryWriteInterval);
                }
            }
            catch { }
        }


        /// <summary>
        /// Handles the Insert event of the RemovableMedia control.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="sender">The source of the event.</param>
        /// <param name="e">The <see cref="MediaEventArgs"/> instance containing the event data.</param>
        static void RemovableMedia_Insert(object sender, MediaEventArgs e)
        {
            try
            {
                if (e.Volume.IsFormatted)
                {
                    // write header first
                    if (!File.Exists(e.Volume.RootDirectory + @"\telemetrie.csv"))
                    {
                        using (var FileHandle = new FileStream(e.Volume.RootDirectory + @"\telemetrie.csv", FileMode.OpenOrCreate))
                        {
                            byte[] data = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("A1;A2;RssiUp;RssiDown");
                            FileHandle.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
                            FileHandle.Flush();
                        }
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        using (var FileHandle = new FileStream(e.Volume.RootDirectory + @"\telemetrie.csv", FileMode.Append))
                        {
                            byte[] data = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("\n" + FrskyManager.A1.ToString() + ";" + FrskyManager.A2.ToString() + ";" + FrskyManager.RssiUp.ToString() + ";" + FrskyManager.RssiDown.ToString() + ";");
                            FileHandle.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
                            FileHandle.Flush();
                        }
                    }

                    _usbStorage.Unmount();                    
                    _evt.Set();
                }
            }
            catch { }
        }      
    }
}

Take a look at the file system document for NETMF: https://www.ghielectronics.com/docs/51/files-and-folders#468

Flush doesn’t immediately persist data to the media, you should call FlushAll instead.

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Somehow I missed that. Exactly what is was looking for, thanks a lot!!!