For your information, I have a BPI M1 BPI M1+ BPI M3 All three are currently running Ubuntu 16.04, where SATA works, but it's a very old version. All tests with Armbian were performed using the BPI M1+, although SATA did not work.

Feature regressions are sadly something that happens all the time. There are many variants out there and (part of) Armbian OS is different for every board ... First resolve confusion - do you have M1 (we call it just bananapi) or M3. You mention M3 in the text, while title says M1+. Those are totally different boards. Proceed from older images and find out when this feature stopped working: https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/archive/ https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/oldarchive/

Good morning I have a BPI M1 and M1+ currently running an image from https://banana-pi.org/. Everything works, except it's Ubuntu 16.04. Since yesterday, I've been testing the Armbian images, which are great and up-to-date, but none of them recognize the SATA connection on my SSD. ` fdisk -l ` shows no SATA SSD. Since I absolutely need this connection, I'm stuck. What am I doing wrong, or where do I need to activate the SATA connection? The SATA connection is what makes the BPI M1+ unique. With Ubuntu 16.04, the SATA connection is recognized with both SSD and HDD on the BPI M3. Can someone please help me? I'm completely lost. Regards, Henry

Some boxes with unmodified bls might accept reboot update on shell and boot via the sdcard that way, worked for me on both coreelec and now worked with armbian (I formatted via os and installed termux and typed su, then reboot update), way too useful for boxes with no buttons (yes, they exist)

I am trtying to keep my pcduino 3 nano alive. It has been working perfectly under a debian bullseye distro from Johan Gunarsson for 4 years and now I can't get the OTG to work under any release (bullseye, bookworm or trixie) I have explored many avenues, but even a plain manual setup of g_mass_storage doesn't work in a workable way. The drive appears in Windows Explorer after several minutes, and any copy or delete to that gadget drive takes ages (3+ minutes for a 12kb file) before it fails or succeeds silently. I am looking for a forum where pcduino users can help each other. Thank you, Gaetano.