I installed Armbian_23.2.1_Rock-5a_bookworm_legacy_5.10.160 on Rock 5A running OpenMediaVault.
with the Sata HAT and Penta SATA as a NAS
Unfortunately i am not able to run any script from your side or to get the display on top working,
also i am not able to control the Top Fan.
Could you help me please?
You can enable shell access on omv and login there. Then just run installation script and double check output for errors. It adds new service that need few debs, python packages, libs as well as pwm on gpio and i2c. On releases there is something that brake dependencies, like new python release without needed libs already ported. Armbian and OMV is not actively tested by radxa, but probably You will manage to install needed things.
thank you already for your reply and help.
i am very new to linux and stuff.
i connected to to the Rock with putty and i have bash installed.
is this what you mentioned?
i was trying to run the script already, its not doing anything and i dont see any error outputs.
how can i enable these?
i already installed all the python packages i found in the script with apt install and tried, but i had the same result
If You already inspected installation script then You should know that tested and supported distros was much older armbian and official radxa image. It should give You message about that and point for manual installation which is hard for unexperienced users because You will need to resolve several issues, dependencies, maybe compile something yourself.
I didn’t see any Pointing to an manual installation.
What would be the easiest way for me to get everything running like it’s supposed to run with open media vault?
i installed bullseye CLI now since it is the latest supported by Radxa,
the script now comes to this point
Using /usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/Adafruit_PureIO-1.1.5-py3.9.egg
Finished processing dependencies for Adafruit-SSD1306==1.6.2
/etc
dpkg-deb: error: ‘/tmp/tmp.Nrd8yKPu62’ is not a Debian format archive
dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/tmp.Nrd8yKPu62 (–install):
dpkg-deb --control subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/tmp/tmp.Nrd8yKPu62
sed: can’t read /usr/bin/rockpi-penta/oled.py: No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat ‘/boot/dtbo/rk3588-pwm14-m1.dtbo.disabled’: No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat ‘/boot/dtbo/rk3588-i2c8-m2.dtbo.disabled’: No such file or directory
P: Checking for EXTLINUX directory… found.
P: Writing config for vmlinuz-5.10.110-35-rockchip…
P: Writing config for vmlinuz-5.10.110-12-rockchip…
Installation will take effect after reboot. Do you want to reboot now? [y/N]
Why is that? Any idea?
oh by the way, even when i say yes to reboot, its not working after. already tried that
@dominik @setq and Radxa team.
Has ANYONE gotten the PentaSATA HAT top board to work with the Rock 5A on any OS image?
I am pretty good on Linux and have contributed to many configuration-oriented projects over 20 years, yet after 6 months, I despair of this one.
FWIW I had this working on a Rock 4c+ with Radxa bits on Armbian.
After failing with the Radxa bits on 5a and Armbian, I’ve built a number of different utilities and various forks meant for the 5b and 5c from github sources. None of these function, though some give accurate readout of temps at the console.
Now it appears that the Radxa script to install is broken, and produces an empty output from a 404 page.
All I’d like to is have simple fan control for the Rock 5a with the top board. I even have the custom metal tower case designed to house this configuration.
Is there proven guidance to get this operating, even with a Radxa, non-Armbian kernel? Is it possible to confirm this is current, not depending on scripts that point to unavailable or retired resources?
I apologize if my tone is viewed as unfairly argumentative. I have a 32GB board and 5 4TB drives that are too loud to keep in the room since December!
Thank you,
—Jeremiah
I have only one running with top board, but that one is based on raspberry. For some time I got it running with Rock 3A, but eventually I moved to custom cooling and case with much larger fan. Sure script was outdated and needed few tweaks, but that was not big deal. On Armbian You can always expect some issues and changes that may brake something, ie: recent debian builds for 5x series wont even start on sd od emmc, vendor system is of course bit outdatted, but this is good start point for such tests.
I think I have yet another top board, I can try it if You want on 5A, I think I have one instance for it.
So the 5 SATA array is working, but only the fan is not working?
I made fan control electronic/driver 35 years ago I think, but have focused on fan-less for more than 2 decades. Nowadays I put the HDDs simply not on top of each other, also do not really have a case, mostly other than enough metal fitted to the SoC/RK3588 (I have the Radxa case for ROCK5B). I kept older Intel Atom board with fixed heat-sink just hanging at 2 wires, so vertical. You need of course a room/space where no cats or dogs etc.
If you put the HDDs in a flat organization and even forget about ‘HAT’, so also put ROCK5A and SATA-HAT in a flat organization, things should not warm up that much. Sorry if you bought expensive case or box. You might need some soldering and/or extra wires as the SATA-HAT needs power and some other control signals besides the main high-speed PCIe. But look in schematics of the SATA-HAT, I forgot about it, but I once concluded I would do it like that.
Thank you. I’d really appreciate your efforts here. The 5a is really a fantastic board, that is otherwise capable of hero’s work in this form factor.Having the top board functional will take care of everyone who got this kit from Allnet.
I’m capable of doing testing and validation, including overlay compilation and configuration, kernel/image swapping, etc.
Very best,
Jeremiah