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Hello balbes150, you last image works a lot better then the previous one. Although my wifi is not working, but now it boot's a lot faster and sounds works. I'm on a mk808b plus and the needed dtb is M201-1G.

Hello, I found this Lightweight Device Mounter: https://github.com/LemonBoy/ldm I thought it was interesting enough to share it. install necessary dependencies: apt-get install libmount-dev libglib2.0-dev libudev-dev the systemd service needs ldm.conf file in /etc: nano /etc/ldm.conf with following contents: MOUNT_OWNER=usernameBASE_MOUNTPOINT=/mnt enable the service: systemctl enable ldm start the service: systemctl start ldm It should work, it does with me.

I did some tests today with the power supply. First I tried with a apple ipad PSU (should be quality) and the usb power cable included with the cubie. The board wouldn't even boot. Then I tried with another usb-cable a received together with a solar panel they gave away for free. A miracle, the consumption got down to 3,3W with the transcend ssd, when I tried the sandisk, consumption was 3,1W, without it settled at 1,5W. Then I tried with another usb psu I ones bought in a local hardware shop. With the transcend disk it was 2,1W, with the sandisk 2,5W. Strange, now the sandisk used more. I also checked with the psu of my mele A1000. Not so good results: 6W. I checked the cables of the psu's and the usb-cables. On the Sony is mentioned 20AWG, not so bad though. The others don't mention anything, only black cables. Then I tried again with the sony psu, now it settles at 2,5W. That's something really different then the days before when I measured 6W idle. Probably some bad contact as it was a psu I didn't use already for a long time. Probably with changing the cables while testing the connector cleaned itself. Conclusion: it's worth investigating those psu and usb cables.

tkaiser, seems there is a lot enabled when checking with hdparm: -> hdparm -I /dev/sda: ATA device, with non-removable media Model Number: TS128GSSD740 Serial Number: 20131128B11844012304 Firmware Revision: SVN198 Transport: Serial, ATA8-AST, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions, SATA Rev 2.5, SATA Rev 2.6, SATA Rev 3.0 Standards: Supported: 9 8 7 6 5 Likely used: 9 Configuration: Logical max current cylinders 16383 16383 heads 16 16 sectors/track 63 63 -- CHS current addressable sectors: 16514064 LBA user addressable sectors: 250069680 LBA48 user addressable sectors: 250069680 Logical Sector size: 512 bytes Physical Sector size: 512 bytes Logical Sector-0 offset: 0 bytes device size with M = 1024*1024: 122104 MBytes device size with M = 1000*1000: 128035 MBytes (128 GB) cache/buffer size = unknown Form Factor: less than 1.8 inch Nominal Media Rotation Rate: Solid State Device Capabilities: LBA, IORDY(can be disabled) Queue depth: 32 Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16 Current = 16 Advanced power management level: 254 DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 Cycle time: no flow control=120ns IORDY flow control=120ns Commands/features: Enabled Supported: * SMART feature set Security Mode feature set * Power Management feature set * Write cache * Look-ahead * Host Protected Area feature set * WRITE_BUFFER command * READ_BUFFER command * NOP cmd * DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE * Advanced Power Management feature set SET_MAX security extension * 48-bit Address feature set * Device Configuration Overlay feature set * Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE * FLUSH_CACHE_EXT * SMART error logging * SMART self-test * General Purpose Logging feature set * WRITE_{DMA|MULTIPLE}_FUA_EXT * 64-bit World wide name * WRITE_UNCORRECTABLE_EXT command * {READ,WRITE}_DMA_EXT_GPL commands * Segmented DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE * Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s) * Gen2 signaling speed (3.0Gb/s) * Gen3 signaling speed (6.0Gb/s) * Native Command Queueing (NCQ) * Host-initiated interface power management * Phy event counters * unknown 76[13] * unknown 76[14] * unknown 76[15] DMA Setup Auto-Activate optimization Device-initiated interface power management * Software settings preservation unknown 78[8] * SMART Command Transport (SCT) feature set * SCT Error Recovery Control (AC3) * SCT Features Control (AC4) * SCT Data Tables (AC5) * Data Set Management TRIM supported (limit 2 blocks) Security: Master password revision code = 65534 supported not enabled not locked not frozen not expired: security count supported: enhanced erase 2min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 2min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE UNIT. Logical Unit WWN Device Identifier: 5000000000000000 NAA : 5 IEEE OUI : 000000 Unique ID : 000000000 Checksum: correct -> hdparm -B /dev/sda: APM_level = 254 This one can probably set lower. hdparm -y and hdparm -Y doesn't change anything on the powerconsumption. If I disconnect the drive the powerconsumption settles on 3,5W. I tried another PSU but the power consumption stays the same. I have only from these switching power supplies that are included with a device. I didn't bought the SSD, it's one I took out of a PC they would throw away. So in that assumption it was cheap and therefore may use some more power. I have another SSD from sandisk. I will try that, maybe it uses less power.

Hello, I have a cubieboard A10 connected to a SSD drive (transcend) trough the sata port. I use it as a headless server to run transmission, nfs and barracudadrive. The board runs from a sandisk 16gb µSD card, the data is on the SSD (with dynamic links). I use the standard legacy armbian image without DE. The SSD is powered by the board and the board is powered with a 2A 5V power supply, comming from a sony psp. If I measure the powerconsumption at the wallsocket, I measure 6W in idle and it goes up to 10W in use (so just enough for the power supply). Because there is a specialist here in powerconsumption (tkaiser), I wonder if it isn't possible to make a guide (+ tips&tricks) to reduce power usage on headless server's. This may also include how to chose your HDD/SSD. Another question I have regarding this is the following one: Can you wake up/shutdown the cubie regarding the ethernet connection? So if the ethernet goes down, I want the cubie to shutdown or go in standby (to consume as less power possible), if the ethernet goes up again it should wake up again. Is this possible?

I got tvheadend installed and running with the package of the official repo: sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 379CE192D401AB61 echo "deb https://dl.bintray.com/tvheadend/debjessie release" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tvheadend sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install tvheadend No I can browse to the tvheadend server. It discovers my r280T DVB-T usb-stick (with the mainline kernel module), but doesn't start scanning. Then I installed RTL-SDR, blacklisted the kernel module and tried again. But now the DVB-T stick isn't recognized. If I check dmesg, the usb DVB-T stick is recognized but not initialized, something strange. Or the stick is defective or my cubie A10 isn't up to the task. I will try this evening on my PC running Arch with both the mainline kernel module and the rtl-sdr one.

@technik007_cz When I install tvheadend it abort on this message: Mutex not held at src/idnode.c:102 I don't know why, I used your current latest version: https://nihil.selfhost.eu/tvheadend/nightly/tvheadend_4.1-2236~g817f67e_armhf.deb In dmesg I got this: [ 475.945058] usb 1-1: dvb_frontend_start: failed to start kthread (-4) [ 1005.892539] rtl2832 2-0010: i2c reg read failed -11 reg 01 somebody an idea?

tkaiser, I work in a workshop, so I can make a custom enclosure with trash. I can also mill away the space around the position of the SOC so I only need thermal paste ones and how more sharp edges on the base plate, how better the heat dissipation. Regarding the shippingcost, it's not urgent so shipping cost may go down when the OPI zero arrives. In fact I still hope allwinner will release the new A20 soc soon (if they ever do) and there will be similar boards as the NEO with the A20 SOC. If... I wonder how they will react on your questions about the HAT's.

tkaiser, thanks for the link to the thermal pads, I was thinking to make a copper spacer the size of the H3 and connect it to a metal base board with thermal paste. But the silicone pad will make it easier. I was planning to add 2 usb to sata bridges on the expansion holes, but will the provided current of the board be enough to drive to 2.5" drives? Or should I provide external power?

Hello, guys thanks for answering. It seems it was my powersupply that fails after a while. It's a powersupply I already use for 1 year with my raspberry pi and an external harddrive. I never had problems with it before. Probably those powersupply's do wear also. I tried it again with my Pi and the external harddrive, the Pi keeps on running, but the harddrive goes on and off. Now I use the powersupply of my MELE without any problems. Never thought these powersupply's start to deliver less power due to wear (it wasn't one I bought in china).

Hello, I used my cubieboard A10 to make a torrentserver with armbian. I use armbian jessie with vanilla kernel. The rootfs is on a 16gb sandisk sd-card, the download folder is on a sata ssd. I connect through ssh. When I start up the box everything runs as it should, but after approx. 5 minutes the connection drops with the cubieboard. Transmission stops and the ssh-server stops. When I then reboot, the torrents are gone and I have to reload them. the data on the ssd is still there. I tried already to limit the download speed to 2Mb/s but still the same. What can be the problem? I had a tl wr703n as a torrent box for a long time without a problem. The cubie is more powerfull, but doesn't seem to handle the job. The fact the rootfs is on the sd-card? The vanilla kernel?