Performance and stability issues Openmediavault

[jgpacc]

Are you sure you downloaded the rock64 image? because it worked for me perfectly, what program do you use to write to SD card? i usually use etcher and works wonder, any other gives me mixed results but etcher works for me all the time...

Yes I am using OMV_4_Rock64.  But I gave up on Etcher a while ago because I keep getting that "Couldn't clean the drive, Command Failed: diskpart /s"   So I use DiskFormatter and Win32diskimager
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Well anyway if your method works with the same image i linked and it boots and all but you have instability IMO the problem is somewhere else...your rock64 have at the very least a heatsink? your enclosures/adapters have UAS enabled? did you try to disable it? if you have tried all this im out of ideas...

I am beginning to think something more fundamental is going on.  I can not boot with the link you gave me.  It just dumps every 90 seconds.  I installed my original  strech-openmediavault-rock64-0.7.8-1061-arm64 from the wiki.  it boots and runs for a while than crash.  I did get some messages in the log that looked significat.  Looking for modules on the emmc drive it could not find.  But funny they were there in the prior boot.  So maybe the eMMC is bad, but it does the same on SD card.  Maybe the board is just bad.  

I don't know how to disable UAS but I will look around.  I will try that over the next few days.
Thanks for your help.

Anyway UAS affects external drives only, not EMMC/SD, start looking at that and give another chance to Etcher, maybe...and again, do you have installed a heatsink? made a real difference on my board with stability...anyway, keep us updated of your findings...

I have done many many tests and nothing made sense. I found most of the images for Rock64 are not stable or just dont work/dont boot. Didn't think that was right.  So when you have tested every thing else and the only thing remaining no matter how unlikely has to be the problem.  Power supply.
So I order a new power supply. I got the same one I already had.  and like magic all problems went away.  

I get new SD cards, new USB to SD writer, yes another Rock64.  Finally the last thing I got was another power suppy.

So it is up and running in its cool little Rock64 al. case  (which by the way heat sink does not contact the CPU the way it comes you need a very thick thermal pad)  Runs at 45c idle and 55-60c under heavy backup process.

Only issue remaing is 65/MBS vs 110/MBS for Odroid HC1.  For another day.

Thanks!