I’m running a Banana Pi BPI-M2 Berry with:
- Armbian 23.08.0-trunk Jammy
- Linux 6.6.62-current-sunxi
I want to connect a 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD. I have the standard orange SATA data cable and a USB-to-SATA power adapter (photos attached).
When I connect the SSD to the SATA port and power it via the USB-to-SATA power cable, the system does not detect any drive.
Output from lsblk:
sda 461.3G disk
└─sda1 461.2G part /media/usb
sdb 953.9G disk <-- only appears when I use external USB enclosure
mmcblk0 29.2G disk
└─mmcblk0p1 28.9G part /
When connected directly to the SATA port:
dmesg | grep -i sata
[ 2.167728] ahci-sunxi 1c18000.sata: supply target not found, using dummy regulator
[ 2.537021] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
It looks like the SATA controller is detected, but the drive never links up.
Do I need a special SATA power cable for the BPI-M2 Berry SATA power header? Is powering the SSD from USB insufficient? Has anyone successfully run a 2.5" SSD on SATA with this board under Armbian? Thanks in advance for any guidance!
