SteEdgar

Your correct, I was in the wrong place. This power topic was the reason I was here. I remembered it from when it was first written and applied the patch prior to its inclusion in the Bananian release. Plus many of the members here, are also on he Bananian related forums. Mistake corrected in a round about way. I've switched to the latest armbian release: SATA power fine, limit of 300Mbit on Ethernet is fine for me. It's been stable so far. I'll report back any issues I find. I never went through the pain of trying to get WiFi working on Bananian. I never needed it. Ethernet throughput greater than indicated in the release notes. I obtained these using Slurm: Overall Top RX Speed: 41613.19 KB/s Overall Top TX Speed: 31520.65 KB/s

Thanks for the speedy response! The info on the downloads page states: "underpower issues are possible when using hard drive, HDMI and wireless together. Connecting a battery may help". I've tried 4.4 without using HDMI or wireless and it still fails to provide enough power (my default use is wired SSH). I'll try the latest kernel in the next couple of days and provide any useful feedback.

Yesterday I installed the latest 4.4 kernel (apt-get install linux-image-4.4-bananian) for Bananian 16.04 (all patches applied) on a Banana Pi R1. The install resulted in the "ATA not ready" messages I recall being present prior the inclusion of the power patch referred to in this topic. The net result appears to be as before the inclusion of this patch: the disk isn't getting enough power to complete its initialisation. Reverting to the 3.4 kernel fixed the problem. When using bananian-config, the option to select the R1 as the target hardware is no longer available. Instead it reports that various hardware configurations are now supported by the device tree, or words to that effect. If this is a known problem, can anybody point me in the right direction? If not, I'm happy to help in the diagnosis and resolution. I'm using a Western Digital spinning disk.