[MinnowBoard] Minnowboard Max sata lure homemade

[karlitos]

Hello everyone, 

I hope this could me interesting to someone. I wanted to have a second SATA
port on my Minnowboard Max. The second SATA - mSATA - is carried out on the
high-speed expansion port. So I ordered some samples of the 60-pin header
directly from TE Connectivity. They send me three pieces to Germany in a
couple of days - great service, thank you very much. Then I bought a SATA
extension cable from Delock - see
http://www.delock.de/produkte/G_82855/merkmale.html?setLanguage=en 

Then I cut the female part from the extension cable, removed all the pins
from the header beside the pins 1-6 , 13 and 14 and soldered the cable to
the header. Which was quite tricky, you need soldering iron which where you
can set temperature to 250-260 C° and some fine soldering tips. At the end I
fixed the cable to the header with two-component adhesive (epoxy resin). 

To my big surprise the Minnowboard booted and recognized a SATA hard-disc
connected to this adapter. I was able to install Fedora Linux to the disc
and boot from it. Now I can use two SATA discs at once. 

I put some pictures online here: http://imgur.com/a/2YLry The second picture
is not sharp enough, only the B-/B+ SATA lines were soldered at this time. 

Well ... I know it is kind of hack what I did, but it works great and the
final costs were like 5€ for the SATA extension cable and about an 1 hour of
work. 

Greetings, 

Karel 



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