Question: Support for mSATA SSD
chraaroe opened this issue · 4 comments
Hi sakaki, my apologies for using issues to ask a question.
I've been trying out your Gentoo build on my newly acqiured RPi 3 B+ for which I've bought one of these. It comes with an extenion that allows an external mSATA SSD which for which I've purchased a Samsung 860.
However, upon trying it out I'm unable to find a way to get Gentoo to recognize the device. I see no trace of it through dmesg or anywhere else.
Would I need to compile my own kernel with some additional support to allow for drive to be recognized and mounted?
Thank you for your work.
Hi @chraaroe,
not sure about that specific drive, but if you can get it recognized when booted under stock Raspbian (with the same case, RPi3 B+ board etc.), and then identify the necessary kernel module(s) (following e.g. this guide), I'll be happy to accept a PR to turn it/them on for this package (see e.g. here for an example PR).
Best, sakaki
It's a work in progress - I'm struggling a bit with trying to build my own kernel. Please allow me to use this occasion to thank you for your work and your thorough documentation. It's a pleasure to work with.
I'll see if I cant get it to work and report back my findings :)
Just an update on this one. I'm still investigating my issues with getting the kernel to recognize the harddrive. As recommended by you, I tried installing Raspbian on it to track down the driver used there. However, Raspbian didn't seem to identify the device either.
I'll look further into this. Could also just be a defective HAT.
I'll close this issue again. I never made it work on any distro and ended up concluding that it must have been a defect HAT. The mSATA drive itself was confirmed to work just fine.
After a bit of reading, I found that the controller on that HAT wasn't exactly praised. So instead of ordering a new identical HAT I settled for the X850 V3.0 mSATA SSD card instead. This was recognized from the get-go by Gentoo and has worked flawless so far.