[SD SPI] Failed to initialize the card witn 0x106, but 64gb - OK (IDFGH-14710)

[sazanof]

Answers checklist.

• I have read the documentation ESP-IDF Programming Guide and the issue is not addressed there.
• I have updated my IDF branch (master or release) to the latest version and checked that the issue is present there.
• I have searched the issue tracker for a similar issue and not found a similar issue.

General issue report

OS: Windows, Linux
IDF: 5.3, 5.4 (test with different)
Board: Wroom boards and custom boards
Log not ok: https://gist.github.com/sazanof/8d0a382d95f3451c15ec6ea746232306
Log with 64gb (success) https://gist.github.com/sazanof/c7a90758752e012375b5907d137f2f43
Topic on esp forum: https://www.esp32.com/viewtopic.php?p=144121

Hello! In my project, I use storing the web interface on a memory card. I couldn't get ESP32 to recognize the card for a very long time. I've tried a lot of options and variants: different ESP32 boards, custom boards, different wires length, pullup resistors, different max_freq_khz...

regular microsd 1gb - error (type not supported)
16GB microsdhc memory card - CRC verification error
4gb MICROSDHC U-1 memory card - everything is fine
64gb Samsung evo microsd U-1 - everything is fine

So, cards < 64gb not working. Cards 64gb - works fine!

I installed Arduino with ESP32 boards and check SD SPI sketch example (https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32/tree/master/libraries/SD). ALL cards WORKS FINE! 1,4,8,16,32 GB.

Thus, I concluded that I was probably initializing the memory card incorrectly in the code example esp-idf, although I was using an example from your official 5.4 branch (https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/blob/master/examples/storage/sd_card/sdspi/README.md).

I searched the entire official forum, the entire github - yes, there are similar problems, but they are also floating in nature and there are no solutions to most of the problems. Besides, there's probably a bug somewhere in IDF code or example code, since sd cards work correct through another framework (arduino).

Can you help to solve this problem?

More information here https://www.esp32.com/viewtopic.php?p=144121#p144121

[igrr]

Hi @sazanof,

Thanks for attaching the log for one of the failing cards. I can confirm that we've seen this issue being reported earlier, although we didn't have the specific card which could reproduce this issue (CMD59 returns "not supported").

Do you get the same error from other non-working cards? If the errors are different, could you please attach or link the logs for those other cards as well? We will then split this issue into one issue per root cause.

[sazanof]

Hi @igrr
I attached logs here. Separate log file for each card, group by status codes:

Each file also contains card description (for ex.)

I conducted the last tests with different adapters like this (where there are no pull-up resistors, of course I added them)

I am looking forward to your reply. Thanks!

sd-cards-logs.zip

[igrr]

Thank you for the additional logs! I'll update the issue once we have any fixes to share.

[igrr]

We found a few cards exhibiting similar issues, here are some conclusions so far:

• For the 0x106 ("not supported") error related to sdmmc_send_cmd_crc_on_off: we have a draft patch for this.
• For the 0x109 (CRC) error, this is a similar situation to SD card in SPI mode: mounting after ESP32 restart can fail because CMD52 is issued with CRC check ON (IDFGH-13055) #14000, currently investigating what is the best way to fix this.
• For the 0x107 ("timeout") error: found one card with the same behavior, still debugging it. The funny thing is that another card of the same model from the same batch works just fine...
• There are also a few cards which fail to initialize with 0x108 or 0x109 errors (data corruption) only on ESP32. On newer chips, such as ESP32-S3, they work fine. This needs further investigation, probably there is some timing difference in SPI mode 0 between these chips.

[sazanof]

@igrr

It's great that the problem has been confirmed! I will wait and keep an eye on patches and fixes. If you need anything from me, please let me know!

[d4rkmen]

• For the 0x106 ("not supported") error related to sdmmc_send_cmd_crc_on_off: we have a draft patch for this.

show us what you have got :-)