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  • Got In My Pi5 SATA Hat - Testing Proceeds Tomorrow

    From WokieSux283@ud0s4.net@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 13 04:22:27 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    My Pi5 SATA hat came in - and I have two 2.5" drives,
    so far - an SSD and a WD Black magnetic.

    It's CALLED a "Penta-Hat" but only has 4 plugs actually
    on the board - plus an E-SATA plug, which makes five.

    There are some stand-off headers and some plastic things
    that kinda hold/stabilize the drives. The thing is a
    bit top-heavy, so I may need to attach some kind of
    more stable base/box.

    I *think* it also works with a Rock-5 ... and a second
    PCIe cable is provided.

    The 12v/5A power supply is actually just for if you want
    to use the e-SATA. I've GOT one. There's a chart on the
    (not included) manual showing how many watts SSDs and
    magnetics use. For all SSDs the 27w standard P5 power
    supply OUGHT to do. The e-SATA cable IS provided.

    There's a ribbon cable for connecting the PCIE port
    on the P5 to the board. Also plugs into the main
    hat connector, maybe more for power than anything else.

    The CanaKit heat sink required three little tabs to be
    clipped short so the 12v connector would fit down right.

    Put the latest OpenMediaVault distro on a card, they
    claim it will boot on a P5. OMV has become a pretty
    good little NAS system, I've used it professionally.
    Yep, as confusing to set up, esp permissions, as
    other NAS systems.

    Tomorrow - ok today since it's so damned late - I'll
    boot the card and hopefully get it going. There are
    some Linux utilities that can give me some idea
    about throughput.

    Immediate, easy, goal ... use the SSD as the main
    drive and just write a dinky script using rsync
    to update the magnetic a few times a day. Not
    elegant/sophisticated but it'll work and provide
    redundant storage. Some might want RAID, but
    there are plusses and minuses in RAID setups.

    Will add a couple more SSDs later once I pay
    down my credit card.

    This I will plug into my hub directly, but since
    all but one the devices I'll be saving FROM are
    all wireless there's not gonna be huge speed
    savings there.

    Anyway, fairly cheap on Amazon.

    Oh, what IS it with PI hats ... the plugs never
    accomodate a 2rd hat. Arduino stuff can be a bit
    better in this respect.

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    033-33

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to WokieSux282@ud0s4.net on Thu Feb 13 21:18:50 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 04:22:27 -0500, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:

    Oh, what IS it with PI hats ... the plugs never accomodate a 2rd hat.
    Arduino stuff can be a bit better in this respect.

    I wondered about that. So far I don't have any hats, just the GPIO
    extension board. It's nice to have things labeled. I got a couple more
    Pico Ws yesterday and soldered female headers on one so I can read the
    labels on the bottom of the board. That is one nice thing about the Unos.

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  • From c186282@21:1/5 to WokieSux282@ud0s4.net on Sat Feb 15 01:39:59 2025
    On 2/14/25 1:28 AM, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:
    On 2/13/25 4:18 PM, rbowman wrote:
    On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 04:22:27 -0500, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:

    Oh, what IS it with PI hats ... the plugs never accomodate a 2rd hat.
    Arduino stuff can be a bit better in this respect.

    I wondered about that. So far I don't have any hats, just the GPIO
    extension board. It's nice to have things labeled. I got a couple more
    Pico Ws yesterday and soldered female headers on one so I can read the
    labels on the bottom of the board.  That is one nice thing about the
    Unos.


      Note that my "penta-hat" is NOT going well. There's
      almost NO docs. Found a service, kinda HIDDEN on
      GitHub, but it didn't help.

    Screw it ... ordered a 4-bay 2.5" external USB hub.
    Tried everything I could find ... the damned thing
    KINDA shows up on scanning the PCIe but the drives
    simply will NOT !

    Sabrient has a 4-bay - kinda round with a fan on top.
    They also have one for M2's in case you're keen.

    As most of what I'm gonna be backing up will come
    over wireless anyhow, well, ultra-speed bus ain't
    gonna help much. Setting up SAMBA, maybe NFS shares
    too, whatever works.

    Oh ... note the OpenMediaVault comes as a distro ONLY
    for AMD64 ... for ARM it's a 'plug in' but they've
    changed that so you HAVE to use the 'lite' Deb with
    absolutely no GUI stuff installed. Didn't used to
    be that picky, but, well ....

    Had to change usenet again, my old service is getting
    flakier and flakier.

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  • From c186282@21:1/5 to rbowman on Sat Feb 15 02:33:15 2025
    On 2/13/25 4:18 PM, rbowman wrote:
    On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 04:22:27 -0500, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:

    Oh, what IS it with PI hats ... the plugs never accomodate a 2rd hat.
    Arduino stuff can be a bit better in this respect.

    I wondered about that. So far I don't have any hats, just the GPIO
    extension board. It's nice to have things labeled. I got a couple more
    Pico Ws yesterday and soldered female headers on one so I can read the labels on the bottom of the board. That is one nice thing about the
    Unos.

    Made data recorders with Arduino's ... a double 'shield'
    arrangement. The first was a proto board I glued all the
    sensor electronics to, the second was a LiPo/solar charger
    board (use Seeed, not any others !). There was an option
    for a third shield, LCD display, but actually you set
    everything over serial so it was never necessary but
    I did make one.

    Yep, had to change usenet again, my old provider is
    getting more and more flakey. I suspect there's ONE
    bald old hunched guy (looks more familiar in the
    mirror these days) there who knows how to make
    the server work ... and once he retires, or is
    found dead in his cubicle after a month ....

    Anyway, while PIs are very capable, might not cover
    EVERY possibility with just one 'hat'. IMHO hats
    should have a row of pass-thru GPIO connectors on
    top, just in case.

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