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mSATA SSD not detected on CM4 Node 1 Mini PCIe
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dustyesky5167

05/03/2023, 11:28 PM
Hi team, Been scretching my head on this one. Node1 CM4 with 64-bit Pi OS (Lite) is running happily, but it's not recognising a 512GB mSATA SSD that's plugged into Node1's MiniPCIe slot. lspci returns nothing - and by that I mean no output at all - and lsblk just returns the mmc info (below). I didn't format the mSATA before I plugged it in, so it could well be a NTFS drive, but I would have expected it to at least show up on the bus. Anyone got any suggestions? sudo lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT mmcblk0 179:0 0 14.6G 0 disk ├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 256M 0 part /boot └─mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 14.3G 0 part / mmcblk0boot0 179:32 0 4M 1 disk mmcblk0boot1 179:64 0 4M 1 disk
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_dhanos_

05/03/2023, 11:30 PM
There's no SATA interface provided in the Mini PCIe slot, only PCIe and USB devices can be utilized (depending also on the node type)
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dustyesky5167

05/04/2023, 12:35 AM
Ah crap. That explains that then 🙂
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_dhanos_

05/04/2023, 12:54 AM
This is just a passive mSATA to mSATA adapter, it won;t change anything
You'll need some kind of adapter that contains a PCIe SATA controller
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dustyesky5167

05/04/2023, 1:06 AM
Yeah, thought so. Thanks for the quick reply. Might just go PCIe to SATA or PCIe to USB3.
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_dhanos_

05/04/2023, 1:08 AM
Both will work, yes
If you use Mini PCIe SATA controller, you can also get a SATA to mSATA adapter to use the one you wanted to use
ASM1061-based work well (but avoid ASM1061R)
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dustyesky5167

05/04/2023, 1:14 AM
Copy that. Thanks once again.
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jeremymv

05/09/2023, 1:57 AM
@_dhanos_ Would you mind elaborating on why we should avoid the ASM1061R?
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_dhanos_

05/09/2023, 1:58 AM
"R" stands for RAID and some users using this chip have had issues with the controller that we never fixed. You also don't need this type of RAID, if you need raid better use some software one
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jeremymv

05/09/2023, 1:59 AM
Thanks for the fast response! One of those users would be me 😅 Was trying to figure out if it was worth my time to troubleshoot.
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_dhanos_

05/09/2023, 2:00 AM
Well, if you can return it and get something ASM1061-based, that'd be a betetr choice in most cases 🙂
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joshmock

05/10/2023, 3:56 AM
Thanks for this. Almost ordered something that wasn't ASM1061 and then thought to come check here first. 🖤
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