SATA HDD without root rights on Android

Banana Pi SBCs design BPI-M3(A83T/R18)
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Hi together,

I have a banana Pi M3 with android as a media center (Kodi) and it works quit fine. The last challenge is the us of a HDD over the sata connection (just for data, not OS).

The thing is that I failed because the standard commands ( lsblk, …) dosn’t work. I believe my problem is that i have no root rights on the android. Is there a possibility to mount the HDD without root rights? If not, did anyone knows a SIMPLE possibility to get root rights on the M3 (KingRoot dosn’t work, oneclickroot too expensive)

I am a noob a linux, so please keep your ideas/answers simple :wink:

thanking you in anticipation

Michael

image: BPI-M3_Android_HDMI_V3.img M3 firmware: v2.1rc3 Android: 5.1.1

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Which file system is used on your hdd that you’re trying to connect on the device?

Afaik it should work outof the box. Can you try a smaller usd stick with different filesystems like ext4 or ntfs or fat32 and see with one works.

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Hi,

the HDD had no file system. The (original) plan was, to create everything out of the Pi, which dosn’t work due to the rights limitations. So I create a partition with ext4 on a different computer and now it just works as a USB-drive.

Greetings Michael