BPI M1+ SATA Support

[comp2000]

Good morning

I have a BPI M1 and M1+ currently running an image from https://banana-pi.org/. Everything works, except it's Ubuntu 16.04. Since yesterday, I've been testing the Armbian images, which are great and up-to-date, but none of them recognize the SATA connection on my SSD.

`

fdisk -l

` shows no SATA SSD.

Since I absolutely need this connection, I'm stuck. What am I doing wrong, or where do I need to activate the SATA connection?

The SATA connection is what makes the BPI M1+ unique.

With Ubuntu 16.04, the SATA connection is recognized with both SSD and HDD on the BPI M3.

Can someone please help me? I'm completely lost.

Regards, Henry

[Igor]

Feature regressions are sadly something that happens all the time. There are many variants out there and (part of) Armbian OS is different for every board ... First resolve confusion - do you have M1 (we call it just bananapi) or M3. You mention M3 in the text, while title says M1+. Those are totally different boards.

 

Proceed from older images and find out when this feature stopped working:
https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/archive/
https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/oldarchive/

[comp2000]

For your information, I have a

BPI M1

BPI M1+

BPI M3
All three are currently running Ubuntu 16.04, where SATA works, but it's a very old version. All tests with Armbian were performed using the BPI M1+, although SATA did not work.

[comp2000]

BPI M1+ tested with:

Armbian_23.8.1_Bananapim1plus_jammy

Armbian_24.11.1_Bananapi_noble

Armbian_26.2.0-trunk.342_Bananapi_noble
and the SATA interface doesn't work on any of the three.

Does nobody use a BPI M1+ with an Armbian image where the SATA interface works?