Hi,

 

I have an Alfawise H96 Pro+ tvbox, and installed a community version of armbian image Armbian_23.02.0-trunk_Aml-s9xx-box_sid_edge_6.0.12_xfce_desktop.

I replaced the dtb with the meson-gxm-q200-mod.dtb, and copied all the firmware to the lib, and it works great!

I was able to install HomeAssistant to it, and everything is perfect.

To keep the sd card health status longer I planned to put all the HomeAssistant stuff to an external HDD with an USB to SATA extension.

 

Unfortunately the drive does not working.

 

The informations I collected:

- dmesg output for the usb

[177983.143635] usb 1-3.3: new high-speed USB device number 4 using xhci-hcd
[177983.341115] usb 1-3.3: New USB device found, idVendor=174c, idProduct=55aa, bcdDevice= 1.00
[177983.343939] usb 1-3.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1
[177983.351269] usb 1-3.3: Product: External HDD
[177983.355575] usb 1-3.3: Manufacturer: 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123
[177983.363079] usb 1-3.3: SerialNumber: 2012092102E6
[177983.368915] usb-storage 1-3.3:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[177983.374641] usb-storage 1-3.3:1.0: Quirks match for vid 174c pid 55aa: 400000
[177983.381512] scsi host0: usb-storage 1-3.3:1.0
[177983.425995] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[178005.000504] usb 1-3.3: reset high-speed USB device number 4 using xhci-hcd
 

- lsusb:

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 174c:55aa ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1051E SATA 6Gb/s bridge, ASM1053E SATA 6Gb/s bridge, ASM1153 SATA 3Gb/s bridge, ASM1153E SATA 6Gb/s bridge
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. Hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1a86:55d4 QinHeng Electronics SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus V2
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 

- lsblk:

NAME         MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
mmcblk1      179:0    0 29.7G  0 disk
├─mmcblk1p1  179:1    0  512M  0 part /boot
└─mmcblk1p2  179:2    0 28.9G  0 part /var/log.hdd
                                      /
mmcblk2      179:32   0 14.7G  0 disk
mmcblk2boot0 179:64   0    4M  1 disk
mmcblk2boot1 179:96   0    4M  1 disk
mmcblk2gp0   179:128  0    8M  0 disk
zram0        252:0    0  1.4G  0 disk [SWAP]
zram1        252:1    0   50M  0 disk /var/log
zram2        252:2    0    0B  0 disk
 

 

It seems, that the usb scsi subsystem does not working.

 

Is there a solution for that?

 

Thanks:

Zoltan

17 minutes ago, Zoltán Palkó said:

and copied all the firmware to the lib,

What do you mean by this?

All the extra stuff I downloaded from here: https://github.com/maz-1/h96-pro-plus-armbian-stuff

 

I found it on this forum here: 

 

@Zoltán Palkó Since this is a community project, PRs that include things like this to improve Armbian are very welcomed.

Since I don't have this hardware, I can't incorporate and test code like this for inclusion into base Armbian.

To your original question, have you tried different usb ports on the box?  Also, have you tried installing armbian-firmware-full?

Thanks to the suggestion, the system had armbian-firmware installed. After installing the armbian-firmware-full the usb sata disk is working well.