[bug] Disc drive occasionally stuck in reset loop

[jdfr228]

I am using Cubeboot with the force_fallback option enabled as I ran into some cases where the disc menu wasn't loading properly. Swiss will correctly boot every time I start my system, but sometimes it cannot properly detect the disc drive.

You can hear multiple clicks and spinups as the drive is reset multiple times (want to say 4-5) and then Swiss dumps me to the SD card's files and doesn't include the disc drive as an option unless Z is pressed to include all sources. Selecting the disc drive after this it seems to always properly reset and load the game (I have Swiss set to auto-load disc titles).

Cubeboot is latest, using with a Picoboot with an official RPi, and Swiss is revision 1458.

I'll be testing with force_fallback disabled to see if I get stuck on the IPL animation again or if it's no longer needed. This is a little hard to pin down since I'm certainly not 100% sure it isn't a Swiss problem, or even a problem with my PicoBoot installation- my best guess was CubeBoot was the issue and I should see if it's a problem that anyone's encountered with it before.

Thanks!

[trevor403]

Hello there, force_fallback uses a pretty old copy of iplboot I believe... I can look into updating that.

[jdfr228]

Unfortunately it just occurred with force_fallback disabled as well. It may in fact be a Swiss or hardware issue, so I've also posted over there and hopefully Extrems can shed some light on if it's something they've seen before.

Here are my current cubeboot.ini settings- most things are disabled, but just in case the postboot delay is doing something...

Also is it normal for cubeboot to not initialize the disc drive itself? I believe it only attempts to spin up once Swiss has launched.

cube_color = fb900e
; cube_logo = logo.png
force_fallback = 0
force_progressive = 1
; default_program = swiss.dol
; button_left = something.dol
; button_right = something.dol
; button_down = something.dol
; button_up = something.dol
; button_z = something.dol
; button_r = something.dol
; button_l = something.dol
; button_b = something.dol
; button_x = something.dol
; button_y = something.dol
; button_start = something.dol
; preboot_delay_ms = 6000
postboot_delay_ms = 3000

[jdfr228]

Hi, a super-late update on this since I know I hate having Github issues sit open forever- after posting on the Swiss forum as well and seeing how weirdly inconsistent my boots really are when trying multiple in a row, I think I first need to rule out that my crappy SD Media Launcher's SD Gecko isn't the real cause of the problems.

With the SD Gecko out doing a stock boot (at least I'm assuming it's stock- PicoBoot won't load an alternative IPL if there's nowhere to load it from right?), my Pikmin 2 disc worked around 12 times in a row (first boot was oddly long, maybe a cold start).

Put the cheap SD Gecko back in and I got a couple good boots, and a string of bad ones with different errors- getting into Swiss but it failing to detect my DVD drive, and then a couple PicoBoot/cubeboot errors showing "HALT - No program loaded! (path=z.dol)", and if that's supposed to be what's loaded when I hold down Z I definitely wasn't even touching the controller!

If anyone can recommend a nice quality SD Gecko since I unfortunately have no SP2 port, I feel like that's the best place to start.