Orange Pi 5 - unable to detect NVMe drive

[BOFFBOY]

Hi all,

 

Testing this OP5, got a standard M2 NVMe SSD (this works on my OP5Plus)

 

I have formatted to exFAT with windows, inserted on the OP5, loaded ArmbianOS on MicroSD, it boots fine but I cant get it to show the nvme drive using fdisk -l  or lsblk

 

It seem like its not detecting the m2 nvme ssd at all..

 

little help please ?

[eselarm]

13 minutes ago, BOFFBOY said:

loaded ArmbianOS on MicroSD

which image did you write to the SD-card ?

[BOFFBOY]

Armbian_24.5.2_Orangepi5_noble_vendor_6.1.43_gnome-oibaf_desktop.img

and tested a few older legacy jammys... same result.

Edited January 9 by BOFFBOY

[Werner]

Try this one which has updated rockchip sdk kernel and check if nvme is visible: https://github.com/armbian/os/releases/download/25.2.0-trunk.299/Armbian_25.2.0-trunk.299_Orangepi5_trixie_vendor_6.1.84_minimal.img.xz

[BOFFBOY]

tried it still unable to see NVMe SSD....

 

I did notice these two lines when i did armbian-upgrade

..........................
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/regulatory.db for built-in driver cfg80211
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/regulatory.db.p7s for built-in driver cfg80211

update-initramfs: Armbian: Converting to u-boot format: /boot/uInitrd-6.1.84-vendor-rk35xx
Image Name:   uInitrd
Created:      Fri Jan 10 00:17:25 2025
Image Type:   AArch64 Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
Data Size:    10490152 Bytes = 10244.29 KiB = 10.00 MiB
Load Address: 00000000
Entry Point:  00000000
update-initramfs: Armbian: Symlinking /boot/uInitrd-6.1.84-vendor-rk35xx to /boot/uInitrd
'/boot/uInitrd' -> 'uInitrd-6.1.84-vendor-rk35xx'
update-initramfs: Armbian: done.
Summary:
  Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0

 

 

 

[Werner]

Would you mind sharing logs as described below?

 

Providing logs with

 

PASTE_SERVER_HOST=paste.armbian.de armbianmonitor -u

 

 helps with troubleshooting and significantly raises chances that issue gets addressed.

 

 

[BOFFBOY]

Hi Werner,

 

Here you go, that is very smart way of collecting logs. 
https://paste.armbian.de/upuyozujik

 

Btw, the NVMe SSD was tested with windows formatted with GPT NTFS and exFAT, both same result.. OP5 unable to detect it. its Gen3 SSD, pretty sure OP5 is Gen2 but its not the issue here right ?

[ArmBoy1988]

I just installed an NVME and transferred image using armbian-install and all is working/detected fine.

 

I purchased this:  https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0BVQXGS3D

 

I was using image the default from the download page:

 

Armbian_24.11.2_Orangepi5_noble_vendor_6.1.75_gnome-kisak_desktop.img.xz

 

I've found with several threads about NVME issues that the one being tried can be the cause of the issue.  Don't know why.

 

Which NVME are you using?