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Thanks a lot. Bought a cheap SD card reader and was able to put 4.13 server image inside an SD card and finally: [root@thinkpadx230 susinths]# ssh 192.168.1.27 root@192.168.1.27's password: You are required to change your password immediately (root enforced) ____ ___ / ___|/ _ \__ ____ ____ __ \___ \ (_) \ \/ /\ \/ /\ \/ / ___) \__, |> < > < > < |____/ /_//_/\_\/_/\_\/_/\_\ Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.32 user-built Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS 4.13.0-rc7-next-20170901-amlogics905x System load: 1.01 0.41 0.15 Up time: 2 min Memory usage: 3 % of 2860MB IP: 192.168.1.27 Usage of /: 3% of 58G Last login: Fri Sep 1 17:29:29 2017 from 192.168.1.73 Changing password for root. (current) UNIX password: Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: Thank you for choosing Armbian! Support: www.armbian.com @balbes150, thanks a lot! Will be have USB support when 4.13 is stable? I'd like to use an old SSD drive with this device. Also, it seems H96 Pro+ has 4 USB 2.0 ports, 2 hidden inside. EDIT: have to admit i feel like a kid now after getting this to work! Love the 3G RAM on this box+ 1GbE. It's using 6-7W when i run stress-ng --cpu 8 --io 2 --vm 1 --vm-bytes 1G --timeout 300s. Really nice!

I've tried with 3 different USB sticks, 4, 8 and 64GB in sizes with the same issue: failing to find and mount the rootfs. Kernel 3.14 images don't boot at all, while 4.13 rc drops into Busybox emergency shell and keyboard doesn't react (tried with 3 different keyboards too). I plan on sourcing an SD card reader to test booting from SD card.

Do you have 32G version of H96 Pro+? Mine is16G version and looks just a bit different. Did you boot from SDcard or USB to get it working?

How do i check/change PART_ROOT for image on USB stick?

Hi, i've been using a whole day to get Linux working on my H96 Pro+ 3G/16G. It fails with rootfs not found when using USB stick. Currently, i got no SD card reader to test with SD card. The image i'm using is Unbuntu server 4.13 https://yadi.sk/d/kZHc0uQE34z5jR. I've been testing different version too, without luck. The DTB that works is meson-gxm-q200.dtb. Any help is highly appreciated!

FYI, the box i bought for $50 is now selling for $46 at Geek....buying. But beware buying more expensive stuff from these folks: https://www.trustpilot.com/users/5984338a0000ff000ab7606f

Hehe I'm willing to let that $50 go for this box in an attempt to get Linux working on it. @igor, alright, let's see how Z28 Pro turns out to be. I'm very interested in that box too, since it has GbE AND USB3, but only with Linux ofc

@igor, have you received the Z28 Pro? I've just ordered A5X MAX with 4GB RAM and thinking whether i should cancel it and rather buy this? A5X MAX looks, from the layout of USB ports etc, totally different than Z28 Pro + it doesn't have GbE.

@tido I've just ordered it from Geekbuying so takes ~30 days to get it i guess. Ofc, i will check the RAM and update the thread here @tkaiser: well, i just ordered it since it's RK3328 + 4GB. Let's see what we can get out of it on the future I came over https://androidtvbox.eu/alfawise-z28-pro-smart-tv-box-android-7-1-powered-rk3328-promo/, Is that correct that only 2GB version got GbE: "Connectivity – 10/100M Ethernet / 10/100/1000Mbps Gigabit Ethernet (version with 2GB RAM / 16GB eMMC), 802.11 b/g/n WiFi / Dual Band 802.11 b/g/n/ac and Bluetooth 4.0 (version with 2GB RAM / 16GB eMMC)" But unfortuantely, no 4GB RAM version. I hope to run containers on such a 4GB RAM box @Xalius, let's see if i can when i get it. Right now i dunno who the vendor is. These chinese boxes have 100s of names, but many could be the same board EDIT: if Igor is working on Linux support for Z28 Pro with GbE LAN i will order that one too EDIT2: all the 5 feedback on Geekbuying look totally "fake" IMO, since this box was pretty new and i got an promo email from them which i used to order. A couple of days later, suddently i see 5 feedback. I think ALL of them are fake feedback! This box has bad WiFi etc, but i only bought since it has 4 GB RAM + USB3 in the hope to run Linux in the future. Should i rather cancel this and order Z28 Pro with 2GB RAM/GbE/USB3?

Hi folks, I just bought A5X MAX RK3328 4K TV Box 4GB/16GB since it had 4GB RAM, but only 100mbit Ethernet. Since it's got USB3 so i can get 1gbit Ethernet anyway. The price of $50 incl. shipping tempted to buy it. Hope to run Linux one day and i wonder if i already can test Linux from SD card on this? In the future i hope also to be able to run Linux directly off the 16GB eMMC. I know there is a lot of work going on mainlining support for RK3328. I'm not interested in GUI/Kodi stuff, but just headless Linux server with SSHd/continers running on this. Also a bit concerned about any thermal issues, but i should fix my self by opening the box and modding with heatsinks/USB fan. Will be a small dream come through if i can use this box as a Linux headless server 24/7

Too bad this board isn't available anymore. I also get " is sorry that the baby is temporarily off the shelves, you can stroll around the other baby" like CNX-Soft reported.

Run Nextcloud/Owncloud/Seafile directly from the device. Or use the rest of memory to run Nginx proxy, LXC containers (if possible on ARM) and/or Docker Would be really good if virtualization was supported to run Pfsense. Also FreeNAS, but might need more memory for ZFS i guess.

HW looks really good, but for 2GB version, the price is getting too close to HP ProLiant Microserver Gen8 G1610T which also supports/comes with (much more) ECC RAM support!

I hope Steven reads and strongly considers this great suggestion

Wow, seems like a great addon! Can we now potentialy get 4 disks: 2 via USB2.0, 1 via SATA and 1 via MSATA to SATA adapter? If so that would really rock. Thinking to add USB3.0 to Gigabit adapter on the OTG port to get around 275Mbit/s as someone here tested out! Only problem being power to the SATA disk on MSATA to SATA adapter though

Yeah, my bad, ofc does the Pro version have 2 x mSATA,, while the Base only got 1 mSATA port. Yep, the throughput seems very good. I'll see if i get ok results with my planned OPi Plus 2E. This board clearly is a different league though At some point i was thinking to get APU2C4 from pcengines.ch, still looks interesting for ~ €100.

@tkaiser, thanks for the info. So by using those 2 adapter i can connect 2 SATA disks. But how did Rabeeh connect 3 disks? "I had previously done some I/O benchmark; running dd with direct I/O (i.e. data doesn't go through processor caches) i was able to reach ~1.5GB/sec on 3 SSDs (2 on mini pcie and one m.2) which is maxing out the 3 SATA links (each SATA link is ~540MB/sec)." He writes he had 2 disks on mPCIe and 1 on M.2. This looks very interesting and by external USB 3.0 (or is it 2.0?), i might be able build a 4 disk NAS box Perhaps SATA PM being used to connect 2 SSDs on an mPCIe-SATA adapter? Either way, i'm gonna orde this board when i can afford it (not only $90, but shipping+tax etc will make it ~ $150 unfortunately)

Just read about the ClearFog Base. Is it possible to run 2 x HDD on the mPCIe port on this too? What would i need of adapters for that? The Base looks quite interesting to me as tkaiser mentions it has good I/O and that "that both M.2 and mSATA slots can be ‘converted’ to normal SATA ports by using cheap mechanical adapters (might require some SERDES config voodoo in u-boot, Rabeeh from Solid-Run explained details in Armbian forum — Free section, ‘Quick review of Solidrun’s Clearfog’ thread)" Hence i arrived here Thanks.

Fio can be used wherever you want to test the IOPS performance.Fio is especially interesting on flash based devices (SSD/eMMC/SD), although i've only tested on SSDs. And it gives you IOPS as a metric. It can give an indication of IOPS of the device given a block size the test is run with. I will give iozone a try and if i get time, also try to compile fio on Armbian.

Unfortunately, i see one buyer has given the following feedback: Board came defective! two weeks trying to run on Linux and android did not happen. then long conversation with the Chinese friends shipping logs boot and finally they admit that the internal memory card is faulty. it, replace charge refused! they say wait decision when will the boss. but the boss decided nothing more than 10 days. shorter than buying at your own risk. I advise you not to confirm receipt until all thoroughly check. and it is better to take raspberri! Additional Feedback What can I say, the seller no more answers! ignore... I mean when doing business like this and selling boards like hot cakes, it can't be hard to replace that board to that buyer Xunlong?

There is a board called WiTi with 2 SATA, now WiTi 2 is being planned on mqmaker's forum. It looks really nice and reasonably priced (the old one). But it's some MTK MIPS chips. @tkaiser, you don't support MIPS arch right?

I've really missed this great news. I did read that Orange Pi Plus 2E was being developed based on feedback from folks from Armbian a while ago. Now i'm gonna order one to try to make 4 disks (mdraid 10, or 6) based NAS. Looking forward like a child Based on @tkaiser's comments different places, these 4 disks will be read/written in parallel and we could achieve ok performance. THX @tkaiser! You (and others of Armbian as well) rock!

I don't quite get "it will be ready Q4 of this year". Is it a Lime board, but with 2GB RAM instead?

Too bad But i saw the video on http://www.armbian.com/pcduino3/, which A20 board has 2GB of RAM? Mine only got 1GB. I'll try to run Armbian on mine when i get some time this summer. Thanks for you answer, @tkaiser EDIT: i think i also need to consider buying one Olimex A20 board, but it's more expensive than pcduino3 nano. Also need to do some research if there are newer and better alternatives. Sorry if OT here!

Hi, can i use a bettery and RPI monitor with my PCDuini 3 Nano which i have laying around never even opened? (sorry i haven't read through the whole thread, just came here from tkaiser's link at cnx-soft)