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MacBook Pro Retina Bootcamp USB set address failed

I'm running Bootcamp with Win10 Pro and sometimes I get the following error: "USB Set Address Failed" it refers to the SD card. It happens even with no card on the slot. However in OS X the SD card reader works perfectly its just a Windows issue.


I updated Boot camp drivers but the problem still persists, any input will be appreciated.


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MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Nov 25, 2015 8:15 AM

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Dec 22, 2016 2:35 PM in response to caisingbo

Many people are having this issue. I don't get it 'sometimes', since Anniversary Edition I get it always.

See SD Card Slot Disappears After Sleep (Gone Until Reboot)

and

Re: SD Card Reader not working in Windows 10

note how many people are affected - see how many posts there are in the first discussion.


finally see here: Use Windows 10 on your Mac with Boot Camp - Apple Support

and let's quote it together:

"The current version of Windows support software (drivers) available from Boot Camp Assistant includes support for the following features of your Mac in Windows 10....

* Built-in SD or SDXC card slot

Mac computers that support Windows 10

[they cite all affected models]

Many of the affected have a Retina Macbook Pro 2013 with a Broadcom chipset. Someone has claimed that apple fixed their chipset when they took their Mac to them. Others claim its a windows driver problem.

Dec 22, 2016 3:14 PM in response to towoode

Even the Mac/OSX side has issues with SD Cards - Mac computers: Don't change SD cards while computer sleeps - Apple Support . The PID/VID is used as an identifier on the USB bus, hence the caveat about the Manufacturer/Capacity .


The USB Set Address Failed is an issue on non-Macs running W10 as well. Your favorite search engines will find these. If the same PID/VID/SubSysID shows up more than once, it will cause such an error.


The 1607 (Anniversary Update) release also breaks two other Apple drivers (AppleHFS.sys and AppleMNT.sys). My bug-report was closed because BC6 drivers are deprecating support for JHFS+. There known issues with storage and 1607 release which you can find via a search engine. I have stayed with 1511 release for W10. On my primary Mac, I went back to W7 so I could deal with all the known issues better. Hibernate/Wake solves most adapter issues, but is a very expensive process.


Both Apple and Microsoft play ping-pong with Bootcamp users, which is unfortunate. There is no clear ownership or desire to solve this from either side. 😮

Dec 22, 2016 3:24 PM in response to towoode

towoode wrote:


Many of the affected have a Retina Macbook Pro 2013 with a Broadcom chipset. Someone has claimed that apple fixed their chipset when they took their Mac to them. Others claim its a windows driver problem.

From one of your references, I had posted the Broadcom SCSI driver used for the SD Card - Re: SD Card Slot Disappears After Sleep (Gone Until Reboot) on a 2012 13-in non-Retina MBP.


The problem is not as bad on 1511 as it is on 1607 release. On a 2013 15-in rMBP, running W7, due to W7 issues, sometimes I get duplicate instances of some adapters (WiFi or Ethernet) across Hibernate/Wake, but after deleting the numbered instance, things go back to working.

Dec 25, 2016 5:10 AM in response to Loner T

Thanks - I've now done some reading regarding the GENERAL Win 10 USB Set Address Failed issue, but nothing that even hints at a workaround for Macbook BootCamp drivers has turned up. I did find some elaborate combination of resetting SMC, unlinking the SD card in Parallels, hard resetting and removing the card could occasionally give me the opposite of our issue: I got a working-for-one-boot SD card in Windows 10 1607 and a non-working in Parallels Win 10 card. But I gave up at that point. Does anyone have a workaround?


I found a guy who has my exact issue (OSX also takes a minute to display boot options after Win 10 install and this often hangs) http://superuser.com/questions/1129612/unknown-usb-device-set-address-failed-for -apple-sd-card-reader.Is anyone else experiencing this exact issue?


I also continued to post at the main issue for this I can find on the MS forums and in no uncertain terms I have been told it is an Apple issue. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-hardware/sd-card-de tection-issue-in-windows-installed-on/7a2a896a-335f-4504-aa88-952ec8ed2eb3?msgId =ea9662be-39e4-4121-8706-ab0d49d27d27. Feel welcome to leave a post on that thread also if you have the energy left!


So how do I formally raise this with Apple other than these forums? Will anyone else join me?

Dec 25, 2016 6:13 AM in response to towoode

towoode wrote:



I found a guy who has my exact issue (OSX also takes a minute to display boot options after Win 10 install and this often hangs) http://superuser.com/questions/1129612/unknown-usb-device-set-address-failed-for -apple-sd-card-reader.Is anyone else experiencing this exact issue?

This is slightly different. It worked after replacing the driver only once, then the newly replaced Apple driver failed consistently.


I also continued to post at the main issue for this I can find on the MS forums and in no uncertain terms I have been told it is an Apple issue. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-hardware/sd-card-de tection-issue-in-windows-installed-on/7a2a896a-335f-4504-aa88-952ec8ed2eb3?msgI d =ea9662be-39e4-4121-8706-ab0d49d27d27. Feel welcome to leave a post on that thread also if you have the energy left!

The MS discussion seems to follow a standard pattern. The instantiations of device instances using PID/VID/SubSys fails in some cases. In some cases, the PCI entries returned by the firmware varies - for example Windows 10: BCM43xx S3 resume firmware initialization problem (MacBook Pro 15 mid 2014) .


So how do I formally raise this with Apple other than these forums? Will anyone else join me?

You can create a Bug report at https://bugreport.apple.com/problem/viewproblem . The SD card issue has been reported by quite a few users over the years, but you should report it again.


As a test, you can remove the SD Card before sleep, wake the Mac and check if the SD Card controller re-appears. This will show a Windows kernel related issue. Check Event Viewer and post related events to the Microsoft forum (without the SD Card).

Dec 26, 2016 7:01 AM in response to Loner T

Submitted the bug.

*I thought I'd focus on the latest manifestation of the problems which is in this ticket here with Anniversary Edition

*I made the point that a lot of us have the bug, therefore seeing all these forum posts is more important than my particular hardware spec

* See the bug ID and the text of my bug entry below. I will post updates here and also on the microsoft forum mentioned below

*I haven't replied to MS yet, perhaps I should raise a bug formally with them also? Please do give me suggestions what to reply to them with

If anyone else would care to join me in submitting or resubmitting a bug request, that would help.

Bug ID: 29809345


New Mac Problem

Classification: Serious Bug

Reproducibility: Always


Title: MacBook Pro Retina Bootcamp USB set address failed


Description:

For over three years now (see date of first post on first link below), a wide range of Macbook users have reported severe problems with the bootcamp SD card driver, we think for a particular Broadcom chipset. The issue got progressively worse with the release of Windows 10, and now with the Windows 10 Anniversary Edition (1607 release) the SD Card is inoperable: on boot we receive Set Address Failed (see last link for latest post) and no known workaround exists. Please see the following links for a large variety of users posting detailed reports on this issue:


https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5408471?answerId=30152035022#30152035022

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7325142?answerId=29396575022#29396575022

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7352538?answerId=31154740022#31154740022

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6459962

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7352538?answerId=31154928022#31154928022&ac_cid=tw123456#31154928


Please see the following link for progression of the issue with Microsoft:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-hardware/sd-card-de tection-issue-in-windows-installed-on/7a2a896a-335f-4504-aa88-952ec8ed2eb3?msgId =ea9662be-39e4-4121-8706-ab0d49d27d27


Please see the following links for a random selection of non-Apple and non-MS forum posts of users suffering from the issue

http://superuser.com/questions/1129612/unknown-usb-device-set-address-failed-for -apple-sd-card-reader/1159547

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/4t6aa8/bootcamp_windows_10_doesnt_ recognize_sd_card/

https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/3s0g2c/boot_camp_windows_8110_detect ing_sdcard_reader_as/


Steps to reproduce:

Boot into bootcamp on a Macbook pro Retina (other users have found the problem in Macbook Airs also - see posts) which uses the affected broadcom chipset, running Windows 10 Anniversary Edition. Try to access content stored on an SD Card using the inbuilt SD Card reader.


Expected Results:

Device Manager (and an OS-desktop popup) will show "USB Set Address failed" as detailed in https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7352538?answerId=31154740022#31154740022 and included in the attached files

On a previous version of Windows you may instead suffer the SD card not resuming from sleep or some lesser issue


Actual Results:

Device manager shows "USB Set Address Failed" and no known workaround is applicable. On older versions of windows you may experience a lesser issue that still renders your SD card unreadable.


Configuration:

See the below configuration of my mac, see also all included forum links for many other hardware configurations where this occurs and the general conclusion that this affects the Broadcom SD-card driver chipset


Hardware Make and Model & OS X Version/Build

Model Name: MacBook Pro

Model Identifier: MacBookPro12,1


Card reader:

Product ID: 0x8406

Vendor ID: 0x05ac (Apple Inc.)

Version: 8.20

Serial Number: 000000000820


OS: El Capitan 10.11.6 and Windows 10 Anniversary


Additional notes:

See all the links mentioned. Note the number of users affected, the diversity of their hardware, the amount of time that has expired since reports came in and the perceived lack of faith from users in a resolution due to Apple and Microsoft (for whom users are both paid customers) not seeking to resolve the issue. Hence I would suggest this is very urgent.

Dec 26, 2016 12:09 PM in response to Loner T

I cannot now break out of `set address failed` no matter what I do to the drivers or the system, no combination of sleep/hibernate changes anything. I responded to microsoft forums in the thread linked above asking for further details and assistance - feel free to comment there also. There are probably more threads on the MS forums on this issue that should be hunted down and linked in.

MacBook Pro Retina Bootcamp USB set address failed

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