On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 03:01:25PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Not sure what went wrong. Richard did not get Cc-ed. Another try with
both his Freescale and Linaro addresses Cc-ed ...