On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 03:17:00PM +0200, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I was wondering if anyone is using the SATA port on IMX53 loco (aka > the quick start). The obvious issue is that of no power to drive the > hard disk or SSD. Unless you have an eSATA enclosure and an > appropriate SATA -> eSATA cable, how would you (or how are you) > using this port. > > Three things come to my mind: > > 1) Purchase a random ATX power supply unit, connect the 12V rail to > the disk, connect the SATA cable to the disk and the board. Short > the appropriate cable on the ATX power supply to turn this on. > (risky, looks ugly, unsafe). > > 2) Purchase a USB-SATA dongle, especially the bare-bone model, get a > SATA power extender cable, connect one to the USB-SATA board, > connect the other to the disk. This way we can power the disk from > USB via the adapter and still use the SATA port on IMX. > > 3) Variant of 2) that could drive 3.25" disks. Purchase a 3.5HDD > enclosure, take it apart, assuming it still has cables (not like > most 2.5" enclosures that have cable-less connection to the disk) > connect just the power cable to the disk and discard the rest. > > Each solution seems hacky and ugly to me, perhaps one of you has > found a better way. > I saw Richard Zhu has a setup. So I Cc-ed him for comments.
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