I have a problem similar to the one described here: ERROR: TransferPacket: Write failed (ret=0) but mine isn’t solved by plugging directly into the computer.
This happened on a day when I was having strange USB port issues, possibly due to the cold temperature affecting the motherboard. My external hard drives were also randomly disconnecting at that time. When it happened, I was using the board to transmit nonstop QPSK at 903 MHz. Everything seems fine now and I’m able to use the mouse, keyboard, webcam, and 2 external hard drives but not the LimeSDR Mini anymore. Whatever happened is also preventing me from flashing the firmware so I’m wondering if I have to buy a USB blaster to fix it.
I made sure to install the latest FTDI driver, version 1.3.0.4. I also tried it on another computer with USB 2 and 3 just to make sure it wasn’t a problem with my USB ports. On this other computer I got a slightly different set of errors in LimeSuite that said, “ERROR: TransferPacket: Read failed (64 bytes)”.
Here are my LimeQuickTest results:
C:\Windows\system32>limequicktest
[ TESTING STARTED ]
->Start time: Wed Dec 23 11:31:03 2020TransferPacket: Read failed (ret=-1)
TransferPacket: Read failed (ret=-1)
TransferPacket: Read failed (ret=-1)
TransferPacket: Read failed (ret=-1)
TransferPacket: Write failed (ret=-1)
TransferPacket: Write failed (ret=-1)
Board not supported
Failed to connect
As you can see, it shows up in LimeSuite’s device list.
However, this is what LimeSuite reports when I try to connect to it:
[11:39:04] INFO: Disconnected control port
[11:40:55] ERROR: TransferPacket: Read failed (ret=-1) x3
[11:40:55] ERROR: TransferPacket: Write failed (ret=-1) x35
[11:40:59] INFO: Connected Control port: UNKNOWN FW:0 HW:0 Protocol:0 GW:0.0 Ref Clk: -0.00 MHz