[ROCKPro64 as NAS?]

With new kernels the fan spins at "255" always, you can find the fan with this command 

sudo find /sys -name pwm1 | grep hwmon

and then change the output to your setup - But on the new kernels the fan point can jump, i am not sure of what reason.

[ROCKPro64 as NAS?]

One of the cards i have costed around 80euro, and it is almost useless.. The cheap cards is the best here, in my opinion.

[ROCKPro64 as NAS?]

I have tested the Ziti... card for 1 week now, and runs very nice. So go for it, works right out of the box with new kernel also.

[ROCKPro64 as NAS?]

@wolf7250 - here you go, here is a couple i got home.

Delock 4 port SATA PCI Express Card - Marvell 88SE9215 - Works out of the box.
 

StarTech.com 4 Port PCI Express SATA III 6Gbps RAID Controller Card with Heatsink (PCIe SATA 3 Controller Adapter (PEXSAT34RH), Styreenhed til lagring (RAID), 4 Kanal, SATA 6Gb/s lavprofil, 600 MBps, RAID 0, 1, 10, JBOD, PCIe 2.0 x2, for P/N: ST521PMINT - Marvell 88SE9230) - Some problems. But i did mange to get it working.

DeLOCK - Lagringskontrol - SATA 6Gb/s - 600 MBps - RAID 0, 1, 10 - PCIe 2.0 x4 (Producent: DeLOCK | Model-nr.: DEL-89395 - Marvell 88SE9215) - Some probs. But did mange to get it working.

Ziyituod PCIe SATA Card, 4 Port (SA3014 - Marvell 9215) Works out of the box.

[ROCKPro64 as NAS?]

@wolf7250 - That card from pine64 should be avoided in my opinion, i did only have trubles with it.  I have only cards with Marvell chipset, and i found out buy a simple card not a fancy raid card - less problems. I can later today find my different cards and name them for you.

[ROCKPro64 as NAS?]

In my opinion it is a fine board, I run my ROCKPRO64 as a NAS. Runs 24/7 - wirh a sata card and 4 harddrivers in the nas case. OMV works fine, but there can be some probs with sata cards. 

I run krenel 5.7.13 focal, no problems what so ever. And it runs very stable.

[RockPro64 and Marvell 88SE9230 compatibility]

Hi,

Myself has a bunch of Marvell chipset sata cards. And almost sure all of them work on kernel 5.7.12 - Try it out and let me know.

I did notice months back probs in OMV with that type of cards. I run kernel 5.7.12 with simpnas and works like charm.

[RockPro CPU fan always on?]

If you want to change the speed. The place of the fan is different on some kernels, you can check it: 

sudo find /sys -name pwm1 | grep hwmon

And you will recive a text, write that.

nano (insert the text you recived here)

and then change "255" to whatever you want.

[SimpNAS Beta Released!]

Has startede it up on my rockpro64 with 4 sata drives, run as SAMBA server, very nice and with no problems at all.

[Odroid XU4 fan control]

You can also use the first script in /etc/rc.local and set them to

 

# Target temperature: 25°C, 30°C, 65°C

TRIP_POINT_0=25000

TRIP_POINT_1=30000

TRIP_POINT_2=65000

 

I use these trip points on my XU4 Cloudshell2 - and it works like charm, the fan speeds will then run around 180,.

[Odroid XU4 fan control]

Hi,

You can use: sudo find /sys -name pwm1 | grep hwmon

 

That command find the fan location, so you can edit your scripts to point to the fan.

 

Thanks.

[Command line eMMC installation from SD]

Me myself has not worked with NanoPI, so my conclusion is based on other boards - I like the idea with LEDs blinking in a certain way, but could be you have to put in a fairly amount of work. But again others can also have benefits of your work. Thanks.

Hope the NanoPi experts have some great ideas to help you. Best luck.

[Rockpro64 no hdd sleep over sata]

@Mathias - Did you find a solution to the problem? Thanks.

[Rockpro64: CPU failed to come online]

On 3/30/2020 at 3:07 PM, Mathias said:

For me, it seems to be working perfectly fine. I've just transferred more than 250G of backups back on my sata drive, no issues.

Thanks.

[Rockpro64 no hdd sleep over sata]

On 3/30/2020 at 5:03 PM, Mathias said:

I have tried OpenSeaChest, but this makes no difference (compared to using hdparm to set up power management parameters). I set the disk to spin down after 25s and it does not... Right now, I have to use a cron job to put it in standby every half an hour (since I only use this disk to do backups, it does not need to wake up beside in the middle of the night where the cron job does not run).

sudo nano /etc/hdparm.conf

 #Disk1
  /dev/disk/by-id/ata-YOURDISK {
  # mult_sect_io = 16
  # write_cache = off
  # dma = on
  spindown_time = 240
  }

 #Disk2
  /dev/disk/by-id/ata-YOURDISK {
  # mult_sect_io = 16
  # write_cache = off
  # dma = on
  spindown_time = 240
  }

240 = 20mins - It works at my setup, i did't try lower spindown time.

 

Some drives can bee spun down with hd-idle. change HD_IDLE_OPTS value, then start and activate hd-idle.service. let me know if it works. Thanks.

[Rockpro64: CPU failed to come online]

I did have some probs with my sata card on 5.4.26, how is it working for you?

[Rockpro64: CPU failed to come online]

I did also have cpu error on 5.4.26. I did downgrade. 

[Rockpro64: CPU failed to come online]

I have moved the thread to Rockchip 3399 , Thanks.

[Rockpro64 no hdd sleep over sata]

Hi @Mathias, there is a utility for seagate disks - if you use such? OpenSeaChest.  It has a lot of different features spin on low power and so on. Best Regards.

[Armbian images do not boot on RockPi4a (with workaround)]

6 hours ago, Gregory said:

I need the rockpi login

On all Armbian image, it is like follows:

root

1234

[ROC-RK3328-CC install Armbian_20.02.1_Renegade_buster_current_5.4.20]

Did you check out the Armbian-config?

 

It seems weird to do it that way around, you want to donwload to emmc to boot from it? What about sd to emmc? 

[RK3399 -Smart Technologies AM40 iQ "Module"]

Determination and Stubborn, i like it. You do not quit without fight ;-)

[RK3399 -Smart Technologies AM40 iQ "Module"]

Did you try booting with some images or so?

[ODROID (XU4 HC2 HC1 C2 N2) LED Light Key / Legend]

@martinayotte thanks, nice and profitable feedback 

[ODROID (XU4 HC2 HC1 C2 N2) LED Light Key / Legend]

Your right @jshc1 if you turn the blue light off manual. It will not show if the kernel fails, right?

 

@TRS-80 the blue light indicate if the kernel are loaded right, then you will have blue light blinking. But if the kernel fails the blue light will be off.