Going mad! Sheevaplug wont recognise eSata, USB, NAND or MMC drives!

[rmwebs]

I'm tearing my hair our at the moment. My (black) eSata sheevaplug wont pick up any form of storage, full stop. I'm using Cyrius's debian installation guide, which worked fine on a USB stick - but wont work on a USB hard drive.

I'm now trying a esata drive, and it wont pickup the drive. I've formatted it as ext2 in Linux and it still wont pick it up.

During the installation, it gets as far as detecting disks then stops as it cant find any, not even the NAND!

I really need to get this sorted, but so far after spending a good 3 hours looking through here and plugcomputer.org I cant find a single thing that helps, just a discussion here how 1 person got it working, as did 1 member of NewIT staff - no files, no tutorial, no links, etc.

Really need some help here

[peter a]

Post your uboot setting to give a clue what could be wrong.

[rmwebs]

Hi Peter,

Sorry - I should have posted them above!

Code:

Marvell>> printenv
bootargs_end=:::DB88FXX81:eth0:none
image_name=uImage
bootargs_console=console=ttyS0,115200
msinlineLinux=yes
botargs_console=console=ttyS0,115200
bootcmd_usb=usb start; ext2load usb 0:1 0x00800000 /uImage; ext2load usb 0:1 0x01100000 /uInitrd
bootargs=console=ttyS0,115200 base-installer/initramfs-tools/driver-policy=most mirror/suite=stable apt-setup/local0/repository="http://people.debian.org/~tbm/orion lenny main" apt-setup/local0/key=http://people.debian.org/~tbm/orion/68FD549F
filesize=2f2a55
fileaddr=1100000
ipaddr=192.168.1.150
pcieTune=no
autoload=no
baudrate=115200
cesvcid=ULULULULULULPPULULULULULDA
ethact=egiga0
ethmtu=1500
image_namsetenv=ipaddr 192.168.1.101
loadaddr=0x02000000
loads_echo=0
mvNetConfig=mv_net_config=(00:11:88:0f:62:81,0:1:2:3),mtu=1500
mvPhoneConfig=mv_phone_config=dev0:fxs,dev1:fxs
nandEcc=1bit
netretry=no
rcvrip=169.254.100.100
rootpath=/mnt/ARM_FS/
run_diag=no
standalone=fsload 0x2000000 $(image_name);setenv bootargs $(console) root=/dev/mtdblock0 rw ip=$(ipaddr):$(serverip)$(bootargs_end) $(mvPhoneConfig); bootm 0x2000000;
usb0Mode=host
yuk_ethaddr=00:00:00:EE:51:81
ethaddr=00:50:43:01:xx:xx
netmask=255.255.255.0
console=console=ttyS0,115200 mtdparts=nand_mtd:0xc0000@0(uboot)ro,0x1ff00000@0x100000(root)
CASset=min
MALLOC_len=1
ethprime=egiga0
serverip=192.168.1.88
bootargs_root=ubi.mtd=1 root=ubi0:rootfs rootfstype=ubifs
recover1=setenv mainlineLinux yes
bootcmd=run bootcmd_disk
arcNumber=2097
bootcmd_mmc=setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200
stdin=serial
stdout=serial
stderr=serial
mainlineLinux=yes
enaMonExt=no
enaCpuStream=no
enaWrAllo=no
pexMode=RC
disL2Cache=no
setL2CacheWT=yes
disL2Prefetch=yes
enaICPref=yes
enaDCPref=yes
sata_dma_mode=yes
netbsd_en=no
vxworks_en=no
bootdelay=3
disaMvPnp=no
enaAutoRecovery=yes

Environment size: 1824/131068 bytes
Marvell>>

[NewIT_Marcus]

I'm tearing my hair our at the moment. My (black) eSata sheevaplug wont pick up any form of storage, full stop. I'm using Cyrius's debian installation guide, which worked fine on a USB stick - but wont work on a USB hard drive.

I'm now trying a esata drive, and it wont pickup the drive. I've formatted it as ext2 in Linux and it still wont pick it up.

During the installation, it gets as far as detecting disks then stops as it cant find any, not even the NAND!

I wanted to ask what is the "it" in "it wont pickup the drive", but I think that you mean the Debian installer. It would certainly help if you were specific about what procedure you are using. Do you mean this one?

All I can suggest regarding a USB drive is that you give it that chance to spin up; for eSATA you might need to to issue an ide reset from U-Boot. Certainly doing so will help confirm that the hardware is working.

[peter a]

bootcmd=run bootcmd_disk   --- that says run the parameter line bootcmd_disk  

I can`t see anyway "bootcmd_disk" , so can`t see how this could run after the reset command .

So would guess that your problem is with uboot ?

[rmwebs]

I think I fixed it 

I was using the pingtoo uboot however it obviously didn't work with the eSata model as I replaced it with the newit sata one provided here: http://www.newit.co.uk/uboot/ and its working now!

For anyone else stuck, this thread helped out: http://www.newit.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,267.0.html

Thanks for the replies guys - much appreciated