[MinnowBoard] SATA pin 7

Tue Sep 2 02:02:30 UTC 2014

Joey,

if you driving just a standard 2.5" sata hd, you can power it via ether the low
speed expansion header or the the J2 connector. my personal recommendation is
that you use a dual voltage power supply with an adapter that is pretty commonly
available for external HD drives.

it really seems that there are lot of people who want to use it in a way that we
had not considered as part of the original design. we are looking at making some
adapters available to make it easy to power an external sata hd...

Dave

> On September 1, 2014 at 8:51 PM Joey C <casas.joey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Dave or others -
>
> I have my MB maxes and I am trying to find the smartest way to power sata
> drives for them. Right now I am actually using a Cubietruck cable with sata
> going to the MB and power coming from the CT!
>
> Has anyone found an inexpensive and simple way to power sata drives for the
> MB?
>
> Thanks - I'm still looking so when I find something I'll let you all know.
>
> On Monday, September 1, 2014, David Anders <danders at circuitco.com> wrote:
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> > Arne,
> >
> > the onboard SATA connector implements the standard SATA pinout which does
> > not
> > include in power signals.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > > On August 30, 2014 at 7:20 AM Arne Gollin <arne.gollin at googlemail.com
> > <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hey everyone,
> > > does anyone know whether the 7th pin of  the sata connector has the power
> > > supply function, i want to use a innodisk satadom as storage device.
> > >
> > > Thx and cheers
> > > Arne
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> > >    1. Re: mSATA Lure (aka Flotsam Lure) (Christopher Price)
> > >    2. Re: mSATA Lure (aka Flotsam Lure) (selsinork at gmail.com
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> > > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:16:59 -0700
> > > From: Christopher Price <cprice at mmv.mobi <javascript:;>>
> > > To: MinnowBoard Development and Community Discussion
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> > > Subject: Re: [MinnowBoard] mSATA Lure (aka Flotsam Lure)
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> > > This really gets into the question of how much Minnowboard will become a
> > > production use-case. If people are going to create data centers out of
> > > Minnowboards stock - sure, it makes sense.
> > >
> > > I?d rather see makers take Minnowboard and create datacenter-friendly
> > > versions that can be sold at a profit for the maker, still be a big win
> > for
> > > the user, and let Minnowboard lures focus on sparking that innovation.
> > >
> > > You could probably juice more than two NIC ports using USB and other I/O
> > > than just PCIe. Also I?m not sure what the true bandwidth rating of the
> > > PCIe port is on the Minnowboard, if it exceeds 1x or delivers 2x. Bay
> > Trail
> > > as a SoC supports up to PCIe 2.0 4x.
> > >
> > > Christopher Price
> > > ConsoleOS.com - iConsole.tv
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> > > On Aug 29, 2014, at 11:07 AM, David Anders <danders at circuitco.com
> > <javascript:;>> wrote:
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> > > >
> > > > On 08/29/2014 01:02 PM, selsinork at gmail.com <javascript:;> wrote:
> > > >> On 29/08/14 18:17, David Anders wrote:
> > > >>> the big question here is how much are people willing to pay for such
> > a
> > > lure?
> > > >> On one of your google+ posts you replied to a comment saying you
> > wanted
> > > to keep
> > > >> the lures simple and low cost, so that they could be done with Eagle,
> > > reproduced
> > > >> by others etc.
> > > >>
> > > >> I absolutely agree with that. So while I can see uses for all of the
> > > things
> > > >> that have so far been suggested for the OpenWRT lure, here's my
> > > suggestion:
> > > >> Keep it simple and just do one with two network ports.
> > > >
> > > > right, this would have to be a requirement for any products we
> > create...
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > >> Cost-wise it's a balancing act, if it gets to the point where a
> > mini-itx
> > > Atom
> > > >> board and a couple of pci nics is in the same ballpark then will it be
> > > worth it?
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > that is my concern here. once you add in all the costs, does the
> > feature
> > > set actually warrant purchasing?
> > > >
> > > > Dave
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> > > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 19:17:49 +0100
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> > > On 29/08/14 19:06, David Anders wrote:
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> > > > it was more of a joke with respect that embedded is indeed a very wide
> > > > range of devices, not intended to start a flame war, hehe
> > >
> > > no flames intended, just genuinely interested in a different perspective
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