M2.ssd will randomly fail to write on rock3a

[RadxaYuntian]

BTW our latest 3A image is also based on Rockchip 5.10 kernel and have DSI support for our 5 and 8-inch display. Could be an option for you.

[barsikus007]

Sure!
I use https://redirect.armbian.com/region/EU/rock-3a/Jammy_current_minimal
(or you can visit https://www.armbian.com/rock-3a/ and choose Jammy 6.1 minimal-cli image)

Reproduce steps:

• assemble penta-sata-hat (if you need to use top-board fan or display, you need to enable some overlays on armbian, but it doesn’t relate to current issue)
• create zpool from disks, which installed in sata-hat
• try to do some IO-intensive stuff

My dmesg: dmesg.zip (23.9 KB)

[Stephen]

Thanks for sharing.

[onolide]

I have Armbian 23.8.1 Jammy with Linux 6.1.50-current-rockchip64 (I use ubuntu instead of debian)

Damn, I tested that kernel too(with an earlier Armbian release), also faced the SSD read only issues as well. Although over there, a reboot fixed the filesystem somehow(but I then triggered it again with heavy file I/O)

If you need a working display or stable ssd operation, but you want to skip begging for money on forums, consider supporting Armbian and they will help you. “Free” support that comes with hw sales will costs you a lot of time and will never really work well. Someday you will want a new kernel and new upstream version, which is far beyond what hw vendors do.

Ah ok, let me discuss with my boss. Thank you for the advice!

[onolide]

Hi, I’m trying to reproduce the issue. Please show me the system image download link. And the reproduce steps.

Try this image(Armbian Bookworm with Linux 4.19). It’s one of the ‘worst’ offenders, I can easily trigger the SSD read only by running sudo apt full-upgrade and then immediately install multiple packages after that sudo apt install nginx php-fpm mariadb-server chromium dnsmasq. If that doesn’t trigger the SSD read only yet, I also copied about 200+GB worth of data(many videos of 10-100+MB) into the Rock 3A.

My Rock 3A is flashed with the latest SPI flash image for SSD boot and I’ve attached the M.2 extension board to perform SSD boot(no microSD has been used at all). I’ve tested on both a Rock 3A 8GB(V1.30) and Rock 3A 4GB(V1.31), both face the SSD read only issue(although the V1.30 triggers the issue later on after more file I/Os than the V1.31, so more ‘resilient’). I’ve also tested two different brands of SSDs, WD SN550 and Crucial P3, both face this SSD read only issue as well. I’ve never experienced this issue with Armbian Bullseye and Linux 5.10(Armbian’s fork of the radxa kernel repo)

[onolide]

I add some patches for rk356x pcie.

• https://github.com/radxa/kernel/commit/aaafe76032fdbe7f57b3d355736df6f76b06881c
• https://github.com/radxa/kernel/commit/6d08f0ba0c8d1456ff6b7620ee4f1d070d57171f
• https://github.com/radxa/kernel/commit/55144b7a39d7b62345219d8aa1ce05abb482cea5

Can you check if your OS 4.19 kernel tree have these pcie related commits? If not, please try to add them to your os and test it if this solves your issue.

Ok let me try and get back to you

What touchscreen display do you use?

I use the Raspberry Pi 7inch display, I think it has the same MIPI-DSI bridge chip as your Radxa 5inch touchscreen display? So I should be able to get my touchscreen display working on your b25 image right if I enable the display drivers and DTBO in the kernel?

[Stephen]

So I should be able to get my touchscreen display working on your b25 image right if I enable the display drivers and DTBO in the kernel?

ROCK 3A bl25 OS includes RPI 7’’ LCD, you can enable it via rsetup.

[barsikus007]

Any updates on this?

[barsikus007]

hey? can you share progress?

[barsikus007]

Then, I will share with mine progress:

I downgraded kernel of armbian (followed armbian-install script way to do that) to legacy and all works fine right now (except apt install zfsutils-linux, cause legacy kernel isn’t supported due to android)

[onolide]

I downgraded kernel of armbian […] all works fine right now

Wait by all works fine now, you mean SSD never fails to write again using armbian legacy kernel? That’s their 5.10 kernel right? Haven’t gotten to try any of the patches from Radxa team yet, will try and find time to do so soon and update this thread

[barsikus007]

I have hdd sata and I had no data reads errors since legacy kernel downgrade

[onolide]

I see, thank you for sharing!