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The Natural Philosopher <
tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 28/05/2026 16:38, Mike Scott wrote:
>> On 28/05/2026 16:27, Mike Scott wrote:
>>> there seems to be no obvious fault with the ssd as such - it was
>>> working as expected when put into storage, and a scan with badblock -w
>>> is currently at 80% with no errors.
>>>
>>
>> I should add, the pi4 is running from the spinner, while checking the
>> ssd. 89% checked, 0 errors as I write.
>>
>> Also, a second pi4 has the same issue, so it`s not a faulty pi4.
>>
> Some disks with some USB adapters simply do not work
>
Two thoughts:
Try a different USB bridge on the SSD.
Some behave better than others.
Maybe try different software on the SSD. I`ve worked
quite a bit with FreeBSD, It lets the Pi firmware
start u-boot to find the disk. Maybe that`ll work
or give some opportunity to tinker with the disk
probe (changing usb_pgood_delay in uboot.env has
been helpful in some cases).
You`d want
https://download.freebsd.org/releases/arm64/aarch64/ISO-IMAGES/15.0/FreeBSD-15.0
-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-RPI.img.xz
FreeBSD won`t solve the problem, but it might provide some insights.
You might need a serial console to see what`s going on.
hth,
bob prohaska
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