SDHC code with SPI works on kingston card but not on Sony card

Check your timeouts, or, more to the point, experiment with them.

I've seen different cards (manufacturers) take vastly different amounts of time to do some of the initialization sequences. SDHCs also generally seem to take longer than smaller SDs.

I have checked it, problem occurs in below highlighted part of code.

I have commented the part where I got wrong response from sony card while sandisk card send correct response

Error at that point means there card caanot go into idle state, & also response returned i.e R1 is 0xC0. But according to card spcs, MSB should be zero of R1, but here I got 1 MSB.

Also Bit 6 represent parameter error in R1. Why it is occuring in sony card

static uint8_t SD_init(void)
{
  uint16_t count;
  uint8_t response;
    
  delay_us(1000000);   /*  1 sec delay */

  SD_CS_DISABLE();   
  SD_INIT_SETTING(KHZ234);               /* initialize with 234Khz */
  SD_CS_DISABLE();                       /* disable chip select */
	
  for(count=10;count>0;count--)          /* send 80 bit long cycle to establish link with SD card */
  {  
    unsigned_sd_spi_byte(0xff);        /* fulfills minimum 74 clocl cycle requirement */
  }
	
  SD_CS_ENABLE();                        /* enable card */
 
  count = 0xfffe;                    
  do 
  {
    response = SD_Command( CMD0_GO_IDLE_STATE, 0,0x95 ); 
  } while((response != 0x01) && (--count));

                                             /* here response send from sony card is 0xc0  */
  if( !count )
    return( SDHC_ERR_TIMEOUT);


  *****other part of initializing sdhc code
}

Aamir Ali said:

sponse returned i.e R1 is 0xC0. But according to card spcs, MSB should be zero of R1, but here I got 1 MSB.

My own MMC/SD card code de-asserts CS when getting a non-0x01 response on the GO_IDLE_STATE command, and retries on next timer interrupt. (it runs in interrupt, so cards can be inserted and removed any time)
Maybe the card needs more time to fire up.
Retrying of course doesn't help if the serial mode isn't supported at all :)

Hi Ali,

I am working on the SDHC interface as well, and only able to find AppNote for SD/MMC interface. I believe that you have been working on this for a while and there are quite a few active discussions on this by you. Do you think if it is possible to share some codes for working with SDHC with MSP430?

Appreciate!

Try a different SPI mode for communication, it worked for me .  

I used the TI appnote just as base for own development. Once I got it working with a plain vanilla MMC card, I improved/changed the code to support mode.
IIRC, there is no full-featured SDHC code available yet.
My own code belongs to my employer, so I cannot give it away, sorry.