Hey guys, is the Rock64 able to supply enough energy to one of those small external HDD?

I was using an external HDD with its own power supply, but decided to go with one of those small HDDs, but I think the board is not delivering enough energy.

I tried an USB 3 (500Gb WD My Passport WDBKXH, WDBY8L) and an USB2 HDD (an old Samsung 1TB External M2 Portable).

According to some info, the first needs up to 650mA and the second needs up to 850mA.


I tried each in the corresponding USB ports. Both are detected by lsusb command.

Lsblk also shows both the drives (I'm not connecting them at the same time).

However, a few seconds into the actual process of write and read, they both "disarm", as if they suddenly lost power, and then reconnect.

dmesg logs a lot of errors:

Hi everyone.
I received my Pinebook 64 last week. I installed the default Neon OS.
I cannot get the sound to work, the volume shows as 100% but nothing out of the onboard speakers or headphones. I can’t find anything in the settings.

Anyone got any advice?

Thanks, Andrew

Hi,

Here is a port of Intel's jam-stapl player for raspberry pi

https://github.com/softerhardware/jam-stapl

it programs jam files to altera FPGAs very well.  As pine64 too uses the rpi2 bus, what will I have to do to get this jam-staple player to work with pin64 A+  ??

Meus amigos podem usar uma placa de vídeo (rx 550) em um Rockpro 64 4gb ddr4, eu pretendo montar um micro-pc gamer.

Hi,

I'm thinking of getting this NVMe SSD:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/...eries.html

Looks like a great SSD for the price, but I'm not sure about it because of the Hardware Encryption and drivers.

Driver: Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST) drivers
System BIOS that supports UEFI 2.3.1

Any recommendations if this is not going to work?

As you can tell, the new forum is up; you can read about it and the functionality here.
To the best of our knowledge the update went smoothly and everything works.

If you experience any issues or find something broken, please report it here. Thanks!

[edit] due to feedback we've gotten we'll be trying implementing a couple improvements in the next few days - the forum will stay up, but you can expect to experience broken icons etc.,

What is the polarity of the Rock64Pro power connector?

HI there,

I have the NAS case with the RP64. I installed the latest MrFixit image on it and managed to install/setup:
- samba (to have a network drive) 
- Rsync (to backup the network drive)
- remove pulseaudio to avoid random freeze as it's currently an unresolved issue)

- install Kodi to have a media center (to read the video / music / photos I save on the HDD)

the issue is with Kodi as when I run it I get random freeze (where nothing is working anymore (no ssh, no network access, image on screen is frozen). The freeze has the same behavior as the issue caused by pulseaudio.

Would anyone have a working kodi (other than the specific distro available)?

What has kodi in common with pulse audio? this issue might be linked with the pulse audio issue somehow and I would like to resolve it if possible.

Thanks for anyone reading / helping!

Hi everyone,

First post here
I'm thinking of getting the RockPRO64 with the NAS case to migrate an existing rpi backup server. I could not find the specs for the case, but I was wondering which heatsink might work the best for that case? any recommendations?

thanks!

There are a number of test pads located on both the front and back sides of the motherboard.

Unfortunately, there are no silkscreen labels for most of them.

Are there any resources for the test pads?

Sharing motherboard backside photos.