GCN Oldies Problems with SD2SP2 not getting recognised by Swiss

[SylverReZ]

Yesterday, I have received an SD2SP2 adapter from eBay. I tried it out with an 8GB microSD card with a few game ROMs on there, but for some reason, Swiss fails to recognise the adapter's presence.

Any clues on what's going on? Let me know in advance.

 

[Ryccardo]

OK, obvious ones, is the card at least trying to conform to the standard (MBR, FAT16/32/64, and with the matching partition type)?
(official Swiss is actually built with GPT support, but let's keep thing simple and widely supported here)

Which version of Swiss? (it can self-update but obviously needs to be SD2SP2 compatible in the first place to reload itself from there, if you have version 630 or whatever it's definitely new enough, FWIW I bought an SD2SP2 + updated Swiss miniDVD combo back in 2019 to upgrade the disc + Xen8GC + SD Gecko combo I bought in 2018 )

Nothing else is on the EXI bus number 2, so by this point the only plausible issues are bad connections, a card that doesn't like SPI mode (so, not a good faith SD/MMC), or a card that has problems with 32 MHz speed (are those a thing? 16 MHz only operation is usually caused by filtered card adapters like the official DOL-019 or the Datel)

 

[SylverReZ]

OK, obvious ones, is the card at least trying to conform to the standard (MBR, FAT16/32/64, and with the matching partition type)?
(official Swiss is actually built with GPT support, but let's keep thing simple and widely supported here)

Which version of Swiss? (it can self-update but obviously needs to be SD2SP2 compatible in the first place to reload itself from there, if you have version 630 or whatever it's definitely new enough, FWIW I bought an SD2SP2 + updated Swiss miniDVD combo back in 2019 to upgrade the disc + XenoGC + SD Gecko combo I bought in 2018 )

Nothing else is on the EXI bus number 2, so by this point the only plausible issues are bad connections, a card that doesn't like SPI mode (so, not a good faith SD/MMC), or a card that has problems with 32 MHz speed (are those a thing? 16 MHz only operation is usually caused by filtered card adapters like the official DOL-019 or the Datel)

I'm currently testing this with a 2GB microSD as that is the only card that I'm currently using. As for the version of Swiss, its the latest Swiss build r1534.

 

[Extrems]

You might have a SDv1 card, which is not currently supported by libogc.
I've only got MMCv3 and SDv2 cards. I had one SDv1 card, but it got misplaced somewhere.

 

[SylverReZ]

You might have a SDv1 card, which is not currently supported by libogc.
I've only got MMCv3 and SDv2 cards. I had one SDv1 card, but it got misplaced somewhere.

SDv1, don't you mean SDSC (SD standard capacity)?

 

[Extrems]

Standard capacity SD cards can be either of those 3.

 

[SylverReZ]

Standard capacity SD cards can be either of those 3.

Either that or it might be that the SP2 port is broken somewhat. If I manage to get it working, then I won't need to take it apart then.

 

[raging_chaos]

I used to have issues with the SD2SP2 not being detected until I tinned one side of the chip's pins with solder. Now it fits a lot better in the slot vs the original loose fit.

 

[wolffangalchemist]

If you aren't opposed to hard wiring it, could try that. I just do internal sd2sp2's becuase i prefer the reliability of soldered connections, i know some people aren't to keen doing it that way for the removability of it or modding the shell for it to fit though.