[HN Gopher] Raspberry Pi OS now has SATA support built-in
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Raspberry Pi OS now has SATA support built-in
Author : geerlingguy
Score : 18 points
Date : 2021-07-30 21:11 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| mosselman wrote:
| Has the situation around booting from a USB-drive bettered for
| the Raspberry pi 4? Last time I tried, I couldn't figure out how
| to actually make it work.
| moondev wrote:
| https://github.com/pftf/RPi4 allows you to store the UEFI
| firmware on the sd card. This enables you to not only boot from
| USB, but also PXE and even ISCSI
| TedDoesntTalk wrote:
| UEFI on an sd card -- that is so cool.
| 6581 wrote:
| https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
| roughly wrote:
| Yes - on the rpi4s, you can enable booting from usb devices
| directly using raspi-config, although raspbian is only 32 bit,
| so I wound up having to do a weird dance of using raspbian to
| enable usb boot and then installing ubuntu on the drive to get
| a 64bit OS
| kelnos wrote:
| > _Sure you could always use hard drives and SSDs with SATA to
| USB adapters, but you [...] can 't RAID them together, at least
| not without some hacks._
|
| Why can't you RAID them together? The kernel doesn't care; all it
| wants to see are block devices. I recently recovered the files
| off a dead NAS by plugging the drives into USB adapters, and
| plugging those into a Raspberry Pi. RAID array assembled just
| fine.
| foxrider wrote:
| Maybe they meant hardware RAID?
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