On 20 July 2011 15:01, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@freescale.com> 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.

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Regards,
Shawn