lvagabond Posted February 13, 2022 Share #1 Posted February 13, 2022 Hi, I have a question about installing DSM on my single board computer. This is a Rock Pi X with 4GB of RAM. I managed to boot in DSM 6.1.x, I don't know what HW driver with, I tried many of them before the board caught up. Finally, I have the correct network card driver and I find the DSM on the network. Unfortunately, the board has no SATA controller, so DSM will not find any disk to install. I tried to connect the drive using a USB-SATA controller, unfortunately to no avail. The question is: can DSM somehow be commissioned using an external drive connected to USB or not? Thank you all for your answer. Lukas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-REX-XP Posted February 13, 2022 Share #2 Posted February 13, 2022 26 minutes ago, lvagabond said: Hi, I have a question about installing DSM on my single board computer. This is a Rock Pi X with 4GB of RAM. I managed to boot in DSM 6.1.x, I don't know what HW driver with, I tried many of them before the board caught up. Finally, I have the correct network card driver and I find the DSM on the network. Unfortunately, the board has no SATA controller, so DSM will not find any disk to install. I tried to connect the drive using a USB-SATA controller, unfortunately to no avail. The question is: can DSM somehow be commissioned using an external drive connected to USB or not? Thank you all for your answer. Lukas Actually no. I tried to do the same with atomic pi. There is no way to do it. P.s. as a workaround: install unraid, then use vm. It works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lvagabond Posted February 13, 2022 Author Share #3 Posted February 13, 2022 It was just an attempt to use a small motherboard when my DS412 + broke down. I'll try to use a different motherboard. Thank you for your answers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IG-88 Posted February 13, 2022 Share #4 Posted February 13, 2022 maybe look for something similar to a ODROID-H2+(if it really needs to be that small and one or two sata ports are enough maybe google for" ODROID-H2+ alternative" maybe https://shop.udoo.org/en/udoo-x86-ii-advanced-plus.html but my guess is that you will find cheaper solutions when accepting less compact solutions if it need to be below mini-itx then maybe this helps? https://geizhals.de/?cat=mbson&sort=p&xf=4400_2.5"+SBC+(Pico-ITX)~4400_3.5"+SBC~4400_Thin+Mini-ITX~4400_UCFF+(4"x4")~7086_sat6gb when including mini-itx there are a lot of options https://geizhals.de/?cat=mbson&sort=p&xf=4400_2.5"+SBC+(Pico-ITX)~4400_3.5"+SBC~4400_Mini-ITX~4400_Thin+Mini-ITX~4400_UCFF+(4"x4")~7086_sat6gb and if we narrow it down to 918+ compatibility (apollolake or geminilake) https://geizhals.de/?cat=mbson&sort=p&xf=11832_Apollo+Lake~11832_Gemini+Lake~11832_Gemini+Lake+Refresh~11836_0.4~4400_2.5"+SBC+(Pico-ITX)~4400_3.5"+SBC~4400_Mini-ITX~4400_Thin+Mini-ITX~4400_UCFF+(4"x4")~7086_sat6gb and to keep the performance up with 4 cores https://geizhals.de/?cat=mbson&sort=p&xf=11832_Apollo+Lake~11832_Gemini+Lake~11832_Gemini+Lake+Refresh~11836_0.4~18525_4~4400_2.5"+SBC+(Pico-ITX)~4400_3.5"+SBC~4400_Mini-ITX~4400_Thin+Mini-ITX~4400_UCFF+(4"x4")~7086_sat6gb but all this is pcie 2.0 (appololake, geminilake), if it need any expand ability then later iteration like elkhartlake is needed (and these are much harder to find) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lvagabond Posted February 14, 2022 Author Share #5 Posted February 14, 2022 (edited) Thank you so much for your tips. I was looking forward to ordering a motherboard from a local retailer. I ordered a Biostar A68N-2100. So I'm wondering if it will work. Edited February 14, 2022 by lvagabond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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