Aargh... sorry! I posted my answer in the wrong thread. It was menat for this topic: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux-sunxi/HDcbSec0fWo
Sorry for the confusion! Regards, Timo Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2016 15:32:09 UTC+2 schrieb [email protected]: > Hi, > > Am Donnerstag, 16. Juni 2016 00:21:58 UTC+2 schrieb Stefan Monnier: > > I recently took out an old Mele-A2000 and set it up with an HDD > > connected (an old 120GB 2.5" laptop drive) via SATA to boot into Debian. > > > > Things mostly work correctly, except that the early boot is unreliable. > > More specifically: > > - I use a recent U-Boot (v2016.05) compiled with default flags for > > "Mele_A1000_defconfig". > > - This U-Boot is installed in an SD card with nothing else on it (so > > the boot script). > > - So the boot procedure looks for some boot.scr and should end up > > finding it on the HDD's /dev/sda. > > - It usually finds it OK, which causes loading of vmlinuz and > > uinitrd.img. > > > > But this last step often fails with timeouts or bad CRC checksums or > > other errors (the exact errors vary from time to time). I'd estimate > > that the boot succeeds about 1/3 of the time. > > > > Once booted, the machine seems to work reliably, (including heavy disk > > and CPU use). This is using Debian's stock kernel 4.6.0-1-armmp. > > > > What could be going on? > > > > > > Stefan > > I can contribute only two observations from my (little) experience: > > 1) I have two Banana Pis. One is running 24/7 for almost 2 years now. I > reboot it once a week and whenever the kernel gets updated (in the beginning > I used the old 3.4 kernels, and since 4.0 I use mainline, currently the > longterm version 4.4). Aside from an issue I had with the first power adaptor > I used in the first weeks after purchasing the device (see 2) below), this > has been running absolutely stable ever since and never let me down. > > 2) You are right about the power source. The first USB power adaptor I used > with my Banana Pi was faulty. It would run fine for some time, but after a > few hours or days the voltage would suddenly drop which would turn off the > device and shortly after, the power would come back and the Banana Pi would > boot up again. I returned the power supply to the dealer and go a different > one which ever since runs fine. For my second Banana Pi I used an old 2A > rated USB power supply that came with an ASUS tablet and with that I also > haven't had any issues. > > Now, which devices would I recommend? Well, I'm happy with my Banana Pis, > they work really well and were super cheap. In terms of board design however, > I find the A20 Olixuino Lime2 more convincing, simply because it comes with a > more reliable barrel plug for power supply and you can even get it with eMMC > storage now. I never bought one, though, because at the time I got my first > Banana Pi, the Lime2 wasn't available yet and in the meantime I saw now need > to replace it. > > Regards, > > Timo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "linux-sunxi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
