Hi there,

 

as already discussed here, 

https://forum.armbian.com/topic/5318-looking-for-an-enclosure-for-espressobin/?do=findComment&comment=49396

 

it seems that this 4-sata mini pci express card is supposed to be supported by armbian. 

As I wrote in that post, it doesn't work for me. 

I've tried Armbian default and next.

 

The cards work, since I got them running with espressobin's Ubuntu distribution.

Also, I've compiled a 4.4.52 Kernel according to:

http://wiki.espressobin.net/tiki-index.php?page=Build+From+Source+-+Kernel

 

It also works just fine with Armbian. 

So, my guess is that there's something different in the kernel config provided by linux-marvel and armbian when it comes to this chipset.

For reference, I've attached the screen output from a boot with the sata card.

 

I can not seem to find the kernel-config in the armbian-buildroot. Where do I find that? 

I've already set *KERNEL_KEEP_CONFIG="yes"* in default-config.conf

 

Any help is aprreciated.

 

Cheers!

udo,

 

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Have you changed/updated u-boot on SPI flash? If not, this is the first thing to do.

18 hours ago, Igor said:

Have you changed/updated u-boot on SPI flash? If not, this is the first thing to do.

Yes, I have U-Boot 2017.03-armada-17.06.3-ga33ecb8 (Jul 05 2017 - 14:30:47 +0800)

18 minutes ago, Udo Waechter said:

Yes, I have U-Boot 2017.03-armada-17.06.3-ga33ecb8 (Jul 05 2017 - 14:30:47 +0800)

 

You need latest which is 2017.03-armada-17.10 https://dl.armbian.com/espressobin/u-boot/

25 minutes ago, Igor said:

 

You need latest which is 2017.03-armada-17.10 https://dl.armbian.com/espressobin/u-boot/

Thanks for that.

 

Unfortunatly something is fishy now, and the machine is bricked

 

i took the 1g-1200_750  - which might have been too much. Time to find out how to unbrick it... Any hints? 

 

TIM-1.0
WTMI-armada-17.10.1-4809244
ENTER init_ddrgen
DDR_TOPOLOGY is 2 :     DDR3, 2CS 512M + 512M
WTMI_CLOCK=3

Fill memory before self refresh...done

Fill memory before self refresh...done

Now in Self-refresh Mode
Restore CAS Read and Write Latency
Restore termination values to original values
Exited self-refresh ...

DLL TUNING
==============
   DLL 0xc0001050[21:16]: [1,26,13]
   DLL 0xc0001050[29:24]: [f,34,21]
   DLL 0xc0001054[21:16]: [4,25,14]
   DLL 0xc0001054[29:24]: [e,2f,1e]
   DLL 0xc0001074[21:16]: [0,3f,1f]
   DLL 0xc0001074[29:24]: [0,3f,1f]
 DLL: pass  

 

You should pick exactly the one you have now. There is no speed increase but you ended up this way  Good point is that this board is unbreakable. One way to recover is this: http://wiki.espressobin.net/tiki-index.php?page=Boot+ESPRESSObin+from+SATA+drive and second option is via UART which is more complicated. 

 

When you are back, repeat flashing SPI, move jumpers back ...

Thanks for the help.

My device doesn't work with the flash-image-1g-1200_750_boot_sd_and_usb.bin image, but the 1000_800 does work just fine.

 

Even the SATA-Card works now. Thanks again! Cheers!

BTW: fell into the same pit and also got it working again with flash-image-1g-1cs-1000_800_boot_sd_and_usb.bin (v? from May 10th 2018).

Got mine with only one chip on the back just a few days ago shipped from Amazon/US.

 

However to You can obtain numbers from the current boot prompt., what are the appropriate commands to figure the right u-boot version for a board?

It might be helpful to mention those on the site as well ;-)