11-05-2019, 11:46 PM
During the discussion about the upcoming pinebook and phone on hackernews the report of a severe issue with the batch of eMMCs shipped with the A64-LTS came up. Namely that the eMMCs apparently ignore the first read instruction which leads to not being able to boot from the eMMCs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21454573
The originial report is on the pine subreddit from a month ago.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PINE64official/...from_emmc/
The author added a bunch of information in the HN post, namely that he tried the different images from the etcher fork and not just armbian and
>I then was able to order a usb3->eMMC adapter, and was able to debug the USB and determine my assertions were correct: those eMMC chips ignored the first read operation.
Unfortunately, I am not familiar with the issue myself, but thought it would be beneficial to collect the information here.
Cheers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21454573
The originial report is on the pine subreddit from a month ago.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PINE64official/...from_emmc/
The author added a bunch of information in the HN post, namely that he tried the different images from the etcher fork and not just armbian and
>I then was able to order a usb3->eMMC adapter, and was able to debug the USB and determine my assertions were correct: those eMMC chips ignored the first read operation.
Unfortunately, I am not familiar with the issue myself, but thought it would be beneficial to collect the information here.
Cheers