PI 5 + NVMe hat + M.2 to SATA converter issues

February 25, 2024, 22:59

ythern

So I'm trying to make a music server, and wanted to use a SATA HDD instead of the current external HDD I was using. For that, I got my hand on a PCIe to NVMe hat, and a M.2 to SATA converter. The M.2 to SATA converter seems at least to be powered, since the leds on it flicker once while booting up, but the SATA disk doesnt seem to be detected. I enabled the PCIe port by having "dtparam=pciex1" in my \boot\config.txt, and don't know what I could be missing to make it work. NVMe hat: https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0CTLX5MW5 M.2 to SATA converter: https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0BVMBDG4B

k9t33n

is it booting now?

ythern

Yup, even with the hat and adapter on

k9t33n

ok do you have a spare SSD to use to see if the hats working?

ythern

Sadly, no

k9t33n

ok that's fine

k9t33n

I think the pi doesn't supply enough power to the HDD that's all

k9t33n

or it can't access it

k9t33n

the only solution I can think of is to get a smaller HDD that uses less power or use a SSD

ythern

Is there any way I could check how much power I have available, or how much power the HDD need?

ythern

I'm uterly dumb, the HDD is just not powered up

ythern

I guess I would need to power it up via USB, or is there another way?

timinytim

I access data and power my HDD through a single USB

k9t33n

you can get an external power supply for the HDD with a usb hub

ythern

Update, project scrapped

ythern

I'm just gonna grab that, but base project wasnt gonna work anyway

ythern

Found that in the hat doc, and the SATA converter need something that work with SATA, and multiply the port

ythern

So it wasnt gonna work anyway, even with a way to power the drive