Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] SD card failure

[Matt Ettus]

On 12/29/2009 01:30 AM, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> Hi all,
> I was affected by the SD card failure announced on Ettus site (got some
> devices not working).
>
> I have a questions, my local store doesn't have SD cards, but only
> SDHC cards (4GB), will those work as well ?

SDHC cards will not work.  Only SD.


> I have some remarks to do as well, I hope Ettus will take those in consideration
> to improve their procedures.
>
> An email to all people that bought the usrp2 lately would have been better than
> only a "news" on Ettus home page.

I sent an email to this mailing list.  I considered an email to all 
recent customers of the USRP2, but decided against it because most of 
the email addresses we have are for purchasing departments, not end 
users, but perhaps should have sent one.  Also, since good and bad cards 
were mixed in the same batch, we don't know who has the bad ones.


> The instructions at
>
> http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/USRP2UserFAQ#HowdoIchangethefirmwareandfpgacodeontheSDCard
>
> reported on that announcement are not complete; there is no mention on the fact
> that in order to build the firmware you need the microblaze compiler,
> and even that
> isn't written where to find it, I found it with a bit of luck at:
> http://gnuradio.org/tools,
> also there is no mention on how to install it. Anyway after having
> installed it, and
> successfully compiled the firmware, I found that at the link:
>
> http://gnuradio.org/releases/usrp2-bin/trunk/
>
> is already compiled and ready to be installed :(


The wiki documentation is a little thin, I agree.  I have applied some 
of your suggestions to that page.

Thank you for your feedback and suggestions.

Matt