diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4840987d0ff..7a9745ba20d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -7162,4 +7162,7 @@
 	  functions are called early in initialization before the tasking
 	  structures are initialized, they will not behavr properly
 	  (2014-4-10).
+	* arch/arm/src/sama5/sam_twi.c: TWI data sending is fails to increment
+	  the number of byes transferred on first byte sent.  from David Sidrane
+	  (2014-4-10).
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/src/sama5/sam_twi.c b/arch/arm/src/sama5/sam_twi.c
index f68f98b042b..f0dfc64a056 100644
--- a/arch/arm/src/sama5/sam_twi.c
+++ b/arch/arm/src/sama5/sam_twi.c
@@ -719,7 +719,7 @@ static void twi_startwrite(struct twi_dev_s *priv, struct i2c_msg_s *msg)
 
   /* Write first byte to send.*/
 
-  twi_putrel(priv, SAM_TWI_THR_OFFSET, msg->buffer[0]);
+  twi_putrel(priv, SAM_TWI_THR_OFFSET, msg->buffer[priv->xfrd++]);
 
   /* Enable write interrupt */