I have two usbsata adapters sata drive to usb and both work on my debianbased distro mint, so theres probably a good chance you can get yours working. In an intel white paper, it says md raid in linux is a block driver that filters data between the linux file system driver, such as ext2 file system, and the low level hard disk drivers, such as the ahci driver and sas driver. Moving rootfs from nandflash to hard drive cubieboard. If youre just playing around maybe get a linux dev board like a pi or something and usb hard drive to start.
I have two usb sata adapters sata drive to usb and both work on my debianbased distro mint, so theres probably a good chance you can get yours working. Is there any way i can use my usbsata adapter in ubuntu. Cubieboard2 dualcard is a variant of cubieboard2 from cubietech limited company. The cubieboard is a small 10x6cm, hacker friendly, extendable, and lowcost arm board with the allwinner a10 soc. I need to find out how to enable or install the sata ahci driver in ubuntu 10. If you want to boot cubian from a hard drive instead of the sd card or the nand flash, you can attach the hard disk to your cubieboard via usb or via the sata connector.
Installing the rootfs to ssd hard drive, makes the cubietruck really like a linux pc. The sx4 hardware includes an onboard dimm and hardware xor offload. Cubietruck plus boot from sata hard drive cubieboard forum. Usb cables free delivery possible on eligible purchases. Load raid driver during install the adaptec pci ultra 160 single channel raid controller, also known as the adaptec 2100s, was an interesting challenge as drivers. May 25, 2014 the main advantage of cubieboard is its sata connector. Add support for cb22card cubieboard 2 with two cards. Cubieboard6 development board powered by actions semi s500. Plug it in to your ethernet network, plug in the sd card, and plug in the power. The cubieboard team managed to run an apache hadoop computer cluster using the lubuntu linux distribution.
Cubieboard is a small 10x6cm, hacker friendly, extendable and very lowcost while powerful arm board with allwinner a10 soc. All you have to do is install drive and boot from linux installation cd or from existing hard drive. I recently experienced a problem installing ubuntu on a particular computer. This included a driver for recognizing the cubieboard on my pc. As far as i understood, the bootloader cannot directl. Use the serial console or ssh to the ip address given to the board by your router. Aug 29, 20 the cubieboard brings sata connectivity to a very low price point arm single board computer sbc. Apr 16, 2015 the official cubieboard related resources are stored in cubie ftp server, mega cloud and baidu cloud for download. The official cubieboard related resources are stored in cubie ftp server, mega cloud and baidu cloud for download. Youd be in for writing some serious software for that though. The cubieboard brings sata connectivity to a very low price point arm single board computer sbc. It seems there is more than 10 different generic drivers needed to support sata besides the manufacturers driver.
The host system cubieboard then sees only a single sata disk, with whatever capacity your chosen raid level gives you. Oct 15, 20 some webcams will be supported in linux, and a driver may already be compiled and available on the platform, or it may need to be compiled. I could enter the necessary credentials for ssh, but i never get to a prompt. On windows they will not, but the goal is the same.
Sata is a computer bus technology for data transfer from hard disk. Next you can boot your cubieboard with the system on the sd card. Blog post by marco ditri on installing debian on a cubieboard. Merge any pacnew files created by the package overwriting the manually installed bootloader files. This is caused by wrong dma settings in the original allwinner driver, that was copied in the mainline kernel. Mount sata drive in cubieboard with lubuntu home circuits. You can get arm processors with built in sata support, if youre thinking a cheap micro like a pic or msp430 maybe a usb to sata bridge. Nov 18, 2008 how do i install linux on sata drives. A recent update, the cubieboard2 is now out, which replaces the allwinner a10 cpu from the original cubieboard single a8 core. May 16, 2014 i wanted to install lubuntu on my new cubieboard2 so i decided to go for this v1. Sata sequential throughput is unbalanced for unknown reasons.
Replace sdx in the following instructions with the device name for the usb or sata drive as it appears on your computer. The fastest way to get the hang of it, and pugs usual way, was to pick up a usb device, and write a driver for it, to experiment with. This soc is used by developers of the lima driver, an opensource driver for the arm mali gpu. This guide only works for ctlubutnudesktopserver v1. Booting the installed system directly from a sata disk requires a uboot with ahci support. I have old hdd from notebook, so i wanted to use it as a media server.
Flash a linux nand image and do the nandsatainstall again. Livesuitphoenixsuit fail to detect cubieboard every time i plug in my device in fel mode. Cubieboard is a singleboard computer, made in zhuhai, guangdong, china. Either way it is totally possible that ported sunximmc driver wasnt designed to work. The cubietruck is an allwinner a20 dual core based developer board, with a very wide range of io options. This is working fine, but what bugs me is the fact that i still need to have a microsdcard installed.
The input interface of hdd raid subboard supply 2 choice, one is usb3. Ongoing efforts to include allwinner support in the mainline linux kernel. The board helpfully reads cubietech and has an a10 chip on it. Howto create a fully working linaro sdcard for cubie 512 or. But we can still install linux distro to sata drive on cubietruck, by putting bootloaderkernel onto nandflash, and rootfs to sata drive, making a really mini computer.
Im talking about pure hardware support, so i can make use of all the drivers that. Using the onboard dimm as cache, and issuing each raid transaction once instead of once for each disk, will result in increased performance, but the driver doesnt do that yet. I then downloaded a linux image from the site to flash on to the board. Disk utility select hdd drive click on the more actions. Each attempt at synching the cubieboard overnight with my other storage ended up with an unresponsive cubiebardnas setup. I wanted to install lubuntu on my new cubieboard2 so i decided to go for this v1. Insert the micro sd card into the cubieboard 2, connect the usb or sata drive, connect ethernet, and apply 5v power. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Ubuntus ubiquity installer could not detect my sata drive, although sudo fdisk l found the drive just fine, and the drive also appeared in gparted.
This manual will tell you how to install lubuntu desktopserver on cubietruck. The sata speed is tested as 60mbs with bare program from allwinner. This option is enabled for cubieboard, cubieboard2 and cubietruck based on contents of linux dts files, including sata power pin config taken from the. Cubieboard is open source hardware that targets developers, geeks, makersits the same pcb model with cubieboard1. Buy cubieboard3 a20 arm a7 dualcore development board cubietruck kit with sata 2. Ive already shown how to get started with the board using the preinstalled android 4. This is a multiboot system from 2009 with a few versions of windows installed, all were installed when in the ide emulation compatibility mode, and now changing it to ahci mode in the bios. However, i think not all webcams are supported in linux because the manufacturer may not have made a driver available for linux, compiled for the target device e. The first short run of prototype boards were sold internationally in september 2012, and the production version started to be sold in october 2012. To connect more disks, you would need a sata cabinet that does raid by itself.
This soc is used by developers of the lima driver, an opensource driver for. The main advantage of cubieboard is its sata connector. There are problems with the sata kernel driver in the current kernel source, it supports 1. When prompted, press y and hit enter to flash the bootloader to the sd card. The first step i took was to download and install phoenixsuit from the cubieboard site to my windows 7 pc. Cubieboard 3 cubietruck based on a20 with native sata shows sequential write performance below whats possible if you attach a good usbtosata enclosure to the same board usbs the winner. I connected mine via usb, using a powered usb hub, since i noticed the cubieboard didnt provide enough power for the hard drive, when connected directly. But we can still install linux distro to sata drive on cubietruck, by putting. Im using cubieboard 1a10, it have an image of linux linaro to run from microsd on its dvd.
Login as the default user alarm with the password alarm. Usually the resources in cubie ftp server and mega cloud are in english language, and the resouces in baidu cloud are in chinses language. The sx4 hardware is not fully utilized by the linux kernel driver. Archives can be uncompressed with 7zip on windows, keka on os x and 7z on linux aptget install p7zipfull. This post has 3 parts related to hdd connected to cubieboard2 with lubuntu. Some webcams will be supported in linux, and a driver may already be compiled and available on the platform, or it may need to be compiled. And it is enhanced computing power with dualcore main chip. The complete list of supported driver status report is here.
The board is set apart by offering sata and an extended pin interface for low level access to the soc. You have option to have nand or sd card and ive decided to go for nand because the system performance should be faster than sd. Ubuntu installer cant find my sata drive pen drive linux. At the 20 fosdem demo it ran ioquake 3 at 47 fps in 1024. Sata cables free delivery possible on eligible purchases. Allwinners a20 soc doesnt support booting from sata drive directly. Boot insert the sd card into the slot, connect a cable to your network if possible or a display and power your board. The board has an arm a8, 1gb of ram, 4gb of flash storage, hdmi output, and a whole bunch of io pins.
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