Re: SATA for Banana Pi Pro

[Artturi Alm <artturi.alm%gmail.com@localhost>]

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).
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> 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
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> Another unrelated question: is there a more fully supported ARM board that supports an external SATA drive?
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> 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