mSATA drive is not recognized

I purchased a LEVEN mSATA SSD 1TB 3D NAND TLC SATA III. Installed it according to this video.

After rebooting, the card/drive is not visible.

# lsblk -o NAME,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,STATE,FSTYPE,MODEL,SERIAL,UUID,LABEL
NAME          SIZE MOUNTPOINT STATE FSTYPE MODEL SERIAL     UUID                                 LABEL
mtdblock0       1M                                                                               
mtdblock1       7M                                                                               
mmcblk0       7.3G                               0x0ea2ec8d                                      
└─mmcblk0p1   7.3G /                btrfs                   03e745f9-b279-4219-bca9-45ff92000aec 
mmcblk0boot0    4M                                                                               
mmcblk0boot1    4M     

Any suggestions?

I think it’s better to try more fundamental things first than lsblk.

Can you see the drive using dmesg?

Also, it should be listed in /dev as /dev/sdX

I’m not sure lsblk will see devices that haven’t been partitioned.

I’m not seeing it in either location.

Can you see the drive using dmesg?

# dmesg | grep dev
[    0.000330] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[    0.002148] devtmpfs: initialized
[    3.120666] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[    4.254864] 2 fixed-partitions partitions found on MTD device spi0.0
[    4.711512] i2c /dev entries driver
[    4.725492] (NULL device *): hwmon_device_register() is deprecated. Please convert the driver to use hwmon_device_register_with_info().
[    4.825357] marvell-cesa f1090000.crypto: CESA device successfully registered
[    4.990229] mmcblk0rpmb: mmc0:0001 H8G4a? partition 3 4.00 MiB, chardev (250:0)
[    6.286908] Waiting 2 sec before mounting root device...
[    8.374992] BTRFS: device fsid 03e745f9-b279-4219-bca9-45ff92000aec devid 1 transid 18137 /dev/root
[    8.384671] BTRFS info (device mmcblk0p1): disk space caching is enabled
[    8.391401] BTRFS info (device mmcblk0p1): has skinny extents
[    8.403421] BTRFS info (device mmcblk0p1): enabling ssd optimizations
[    8.415591] VFS: Mounted root (btrfs filesystem) on device 0:12.
[    8.422596] devtmpfs: mounted
[   10.993735] mount_root: mounting /dev/root
[   10.998408] BTRFS info (device mmcblk0p1): disk space caching is enabled
[   13.117742] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.37.0-ioctl (2017-09-20) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
[   13.204348] tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6
[   13.309165] cryptodev: driver 1.10 loaded.
[   13.403084]     input device check on
[   13.753318] pci 0000:00:02.0: enabling device (0140 -> 0142)
[   15.752081] pci 0000:00:03.0: enabling device (0140 -> 0142)
[   18.030624] device lan0 entered promiscuous mode
[   18.035304] device eth1 entered promiscuous mode
[   18.138964] device lan1 entered promiscuous mode
[   18.249801] device lan2 entered promiscuous mode
[   18.401015] device lan3 entered promiscuous mode
[   18.557620] device lan4 entered promiscuous mode
[   18.562269] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
[   20.926570] ath10k_pci 0000:02:00.0: pdev param 0 not supported by firmware
[   20.963177] device wlan1 entered promiscuous mode
[   21.013731] device wlan0 entered promiscuous mode

Also, it should be listed in /dev as /dev/sdX

# ls /dev
autofs              loop0               null                tty22               tty45               ttyS1
btrfs-control       loop1               port                tty23               tty46               ttyS10
bus                 loop2               ppp                 tty24               tty47               ttyS11
console             loop3               ptmx                tty25               tty48               ttyS12
cpu_dma_latency     loop4               pts                 tty26               tty49               ttyS13
crypto              loop5               random              tty27               tty5                ttyS14
full                loop6               rtc0                tty28               tty50               ttyS15
fuse                loop7               shm                 tty29               tty51               ttyS2
gpiochip0           mapper              snd                 tty3                tty52               ttyS3
gpiochip1           mem                 tty                 tty30               tty53               ttyS4
gpiochip2           memory_bandwidth    tty0                tty31               tty54               ttyS5
gpiochip3           mmcblk0             tty1                tty32               tty55               ttyS6
hwrng               mmcblk0boot0        tty10               tty33               tty56               ttyS7
i2c-0               mmcblk0boot1        tty11               tty34               tty57               ttyS8
i2c-1               mmcblk0p1           tty12               tty35               tty58               ttyS9
i2c-2               mmcblk0rpmb         tty13               tty36               tty59               ubi_ctrl
i2c-3               mtd0                tty14               tty37               tty6                urandom
i2c-4               mtd0ro              tty15               tty38               tty60               vcs
i2c-5               mtd1                tty16               tty39               tty61               vcs1
i2c-6               mtd1ro              tty17               tty4                tty62               vcsa
i2c-7               mtdblock0           tty18               tty40               tty63               vcsa1
i2c-8               mtdblock1           tty19               tty41               tty7                watchdog
kmsg                net                 tty2                tty42               tty8                watchdog0
log                 network_latency     tty20               tty43               tty9                zero
loop-control        network_throughput  tty21               tty44               ttyS0

Any other tests?

Thanks.

I had similar issue in the past.

The solution for me was a hardware hack. I have masked pin 43 of the msata drive using a masking tape.

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Do you have the NAS package installed in the foris?

Disk works on the computer or it doesn’t just go on in turris

Yes, I have the NAS package installed. I removed the mdadm package.

I was using the Omnia as a NAS, but I decided to simplify things and just us an internal mSATA drive.

This one?

From this site, it looks like the pin on the opposite side. I think the side you have up is even pins.

I might be reading it wrong - NM, I think you have it right.

I masked pin 43 and viola, the device was found.

Masking pin 43 was painstaking work–sooo small.

Thanks for the help.

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Two - three layers of your favourite nailpolish :+1:

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