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FYI I just powered all the drives with a separate power supply and they're all online

Okay takin it apart is actually easy ha... So i put my test lead inside the 12v connections into the back of the 4 pin molex connectors on the board. At powerup ..even with 1 drive, voltage is dropping to 9 or 10 volts. and the fans sometimes stutter. It goes back up to 12v after the drives fail to spin up 5v pins on molex seemed fine I think the noise is coming from the board, but its not a loud as earlier. Also I tried with different drives on both ports and got the same behavior

Not yet, i was trying to hold off on full disassembly I'll do that next...

Heliso4 Gen2--No longer powering up drives I came to my office this morning and i noticed my helios4 was running fans at full speed and not responding. I power cycled.. fans ran in burst intervals.. serial console stopped here: I unplugged power to all hardrives. Helios4 booted up. I tested each drive individually on another machine and they are all fine I plugged in 1 harddrive.. Helios4 booted, but did not see drive... I heard a bit of electrical squeeling from somewhere (couldn't identify source) I tested both pin pairs on the power supply.. both read 12.3 volts Any advise on how to proceed from here?

woohoo i'll have to try i'm still using the hardkernel repo does the new uboot use boot.ini? or standard ubootness

I'm running an Odroid N2 as a desktop at 2460x1440@60hz typically with 3 terminals, and chromium with hangouts, homeassistant, plex, slack, and armbian forums always pinned. i'd tried ARM desktop in the past with my le potato and tritium h5... wasn't quite there...... I used an Atomic Pi and it was sufficient--but ultimately 2 gigs of ram wasn't enough even with zram compression. Finally I tried the N2, and I think it's there.. even with bruteforce fbturbo doing the video.. I'm running Armbian bionic, with vendor kernel and Mate Desktop... pretty happy with it.

Well.. looks like Igor has a solution for now Anyway if it comes up again. I'm glad to set it up. I don't mind covering the cost as it should be modest.

hey @Hijax how's your testing going?

Which kernel are you running? armbianmonitor -u can help supply more troubleshooting info.

Hi@lope thanks for sharing your research on modern crypto options. Kernel 5.x for allwinner CPUs is available as the armbian dev kernel. You can switch to it via the armbian-config tool. An image is also available via the "other downloads" link on the download page for your chosen SBC.

Looks great@igor!

Signaling voltage... TTL serial is 3.3V - 5V signalling.. RS232 is 12v. You'll definitely want to use the USB TTL serial on your PC.

Just confirming--- you're using a USB TTL serial adapter right. not USB-RS232?

Try 115200 BPS instead of 9600

Perfect. Locking thread.

If you're in the states and interested in selling your Helios4, DM me.

I'm sorry you're disappointed. That's a pretty harsh accusation. I'd rather you reach out to Kobol directly than to post this as a bug in the Armbian forum. Fortunately Kobol is pretty responsive, and I'm sure they'll reach out to you. I'm sure you could think some alternate strategies for managing your data including LVM rather than a flat filesystem.

hmmm.. that's odd. try apt clean and then possibly check on the contents of /etc/resolv.conf and make sure its got a usable DNS server. otherwise don't really have any ideas.

Tips: use spoiler when adding a long text, use when adding a code, be concise.

you can use an armbian 4.19 image then after you've set it up, run armbian-config.. switch to dev kernel which is 5.x

you could mount the image as loopback and chroot (from an arm box)

you can install them via armbian-config

sounds like bad ethernet cable or switch port

created card https://github.com/orgs/armbian/projects/1#card-24886141 will convert to issue when we're more ready

thats cool.. are we far enough along in the conversation that I should at least put a note on our project board?