[ARMedslack] getting SATA working on seagate goflex net

Richard Lapointe richard.lapointe at gmail.com
Mon Apr 22 22:42:01 UTC 2013


Maybe this will help

http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,12045,12045#msg-12045

Rich Lapointe
On 04/22/2013 08:49 AM, Davide wrote:
> I decided it was time to pull out the goflexnet and hook up two 2.5" 
> sata drives on it.
> I've slackware arm 14 running on it but I can't seem to see anything 
> like a sata bus detected on my goflex net.
>
> Do I need to do something on uboot ro enable sata before the kernel is 
> started ?
>
> I've also fixed the rootfs not being passed correctly via kernel 
> command line:
> fw_setenv usb_scan 'usb start; setenv usb_boot_dev none; for dev in  
> $usb_dev_list; do test $dev -eq 0 && setenv devname /dev/sda ; test 
> $dev -eq 1 && setenv devname /dev/sdb ; test $dev -eq 2 && setenv 
> devname /dev/sdc ; test $dev -eq 3 && setenv devname /dev/sdd ; echo 
> $devname ; for part in $usb_part_list; do echo $dev $part ; if ext2ls 
> usb ${dev}:$part /etc ; then setenv root_fs root=${devname}$part ; 
> setenv rootfstype rootfs=ext2 ; fi ; if ext2load usb ${dev}:$part 
> 0x800000 /boot/uImage 10 ; then setenv usb_boot_dev $dev:$part ; 
> setenv usb_boot_dir /boot ; fi  ; if ext2load usb ${dev}:$part 
> 0x800000 /uImage 10 ; then setenv usb_boot_dev $dev:$part ; setenv 
> usb_boot_dir ; fi  ; done; done; if test "$usb_boot_dev" = "none" ; 
> then echo "No USB bootable device found" ; else echo "USB device 
> $usb_boot_dev is bootable" ; setenv bootargs $console $mtdparts 
> $root_fs ro $rootfstype ; echo $bootargs ; sleep 1; ext2load usb 
> $usb_boot_dev 0x800000 $usb_boot_dir/uImage && setenv usb_boot_address 
> 0x800000 ; ext2load usb $usb_boot_dev 0x1100000 $usb_boot_dir/uinitrd 
> && setenv usb_boot_address 0x800000 0x1100000 ; bootm 
> $usb_boot_address ; fi;'
> fw_setenv bootcmd 'run usb_scan; run set_flash_bootargs; run 
> boot_flash_kernel'
>
> but that does not seem to help detecting anything connected to the 
> sata ports.
>
> Is the arch number correct ?
> arcNumber=2097
>
> Also I can't find where the leds are controlled ... there are a total 
> of 8 monochromatic and one bicolr lets on this thing but I can only 
> find this:
> root at slackware:/sys/class/leds# ls
> plug:green:health@  plug:red:misc@
> root at slackware:/sys/class/leds#
>
> what's up with the 8 white leds ?
>
> Reegards
> David
>
>
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