SATA device

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson TX2
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Hi

I connected SATA device to the development card.

  1. How can I know if my version of L4T support this device?
  2. How can I mount to this device so I can use it as storage device?

Thnks

Eli

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did you try the below commands?:

lsblk
 fdisk -l

As far as I am concerned, you may either need to format the hdd and create a filesystem, or can mount it as is, if it has a filesystem.
somehow like:

mount /dev/sdXY /mnt/folder_name

where X - is a letter of the device that is shown when you are executing “lsblk” command, Y - partition number, and /mnt/folder is the mountpoint to where you want to mount the device.

Otherwise, if it is recognized and has a filesystem already you may mount it from unity GUI

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If it’s a brand new SATA device, you typically need to create a partition table and partition on it, marked as Linux ext.
Then create a ext4 filesystem, and mount it.

First, check what device it got assigned as:

ls /dev/sd*

This will typically show “sda” and perhaps “sda0” if the drive came pre-formatted for DOS/Windows.

Then, create a new partition table (note: This deletes anything on the drive):

sudo apt install -y gdisk
sudo sgdisk --zap /dev/sda
sudo sgdisk --clear /dev/sda
sudo sgdisk -n 0
sudo partprobe
sudo sgdisk -t 0:83

Now, create a ext4 file system:

sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sda0

And make a spot where it will mount in your file system, arrange for it to be mounted on reboot, and mount it now:

sudo mkdir -p /opt/storage
sudo sh -c 'echo "/dev/sda0 /opt/storage ext4 defaults 0 2'
sudo mount /dev/sda0 /opt/storage

You may need to change the “sda” bits to be something else “sdb” or “sdc” or whatever, depending on how your drive showed up.

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Moreover, for GUI mode you can use

sudo apt-get install gparted
sudo gparted