Re: SATA for Banana Pi Pro

[Ron Georgia <netverbs%gmail.com@localhost>]

"how is the external SSD powered?"
Good question. It is power via the on-board 5V SATA Power Output connector. I did try an external spinning disk with it's own power supply. I got the same result, does not see the hard drive.

On 5/28/19, 1:16 PM, "Artturi Alm" <artturi.alm%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

    On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 12:52:27PM -0400, Ron Georgia wrote:
    > I have a banana pi pro with NetBSD (8.99.41) installed. I want to use it as a file server; however, I do not see the SATA controller available or maybe I don’t know what to look for. Either way, I do have an SSD external drive connected, and I do not see that either. Here is the link to my dmesg (https://pastebin.com/sMDzDRzN).
    > 
    > NetBSD origen 8.99.41 NetBSD 8.99.41 (GENERIC) #0: Sun May 19 19:06:53 UTC 2019  mkrepro%mkrepro.NetBSD.org@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/GENERIC evbarm
    > 
    > Another unrelated question: is there a more fully supported ARM board that supports an external SATA drive?
    > 
    > 
    > Ron Georgia
    > “90% of my problems are due to ignorance, the other 10% is because I just don’t know any better.”
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    > 
    
    from your dmesg:
    [     1.000042] ahcisata0 at simplebus1: SATA
    [     1.000042] ahcisata0: interrupting on GIC irq 88
    [     1.000042] ahcisata0: ignoring broken port multiplier support
    [     1.000042] ahcisata0: AHCI revision 1.10, 1 port, 32 slots, CAP
    0x6724ff80<CCCS,PSC,SSC,PMD,SAM,ISS=0x6724ff80=Gen2,SCLO,SAL,SALP,SSNTF,SNCQ>
    [     1.000042] atabus0 at ahcisata0 channel 0
    
    how is the external SSD powered?
    
    -Artturi