ls2088a uboot not detecting SATA drive

[davehill]

Using both:

  http://www.nxp.com/lgfiles/sdk/lsdk1709/firmware_ls2088ardb_uboot_norboot.img

and the img created with flex-builder

  U-Boot 2016.092.0+ga06b209 (Mar 30 2017 - 01:15:01 +0800)

U-boot is not detecting my SATA drives.

Using: scsi reset

and no drives are found.

I have tried several different drives, cables and SATA ports with the same results.

Given the uboot will be polling the drives to figure which to boot, I am not going to be getting very far.

Interestingly, when the flash image of Linux is run, I see the drive is often detected but is disabled shortly after.

Any suggestions on what to try next ?

[davehill]

After looking at the switches N+1 times, I found two that were not set to the board default.

I suspect that:L

SW9 [7] SerDes2 clock spread-spectrum enable

was the culprit. I can now talk to SATA :-)

Now to get it to boot.....

[ufedor]

Which board is in question?

If T2080RDB - please provide clear photo of the on-board inscriptions and stickers with revision information and settings of all configuration switches.

Please provide U-Boot booting log as attachment.