Description

mSATA is a miniaturized SATA interface, commonly used in laptops and embedded devices. The LCSC-TaishanPi-3M-RK3576 development board integrates a MINI-PCIe interface. MINI-PCIe and mSATA physical interfaces are compatible, making it convenient to connect mSATA SSDs to expand storage capacity and improve data transmission speed.

Connect mSATA SSD

Connect the mSATA SSD to the board's MINI-PCIe interface.

Download Corresponding Image

Use Network Disk🚀 to download our provided .img image file from the System Image/Buildroot/ directory.

The image used in this document is: TaishanPi-3M-RK3576_Buildroot_AP6256-mSATA.img

Look for the image file with msata in its name.

Flash Image to Development Board

Reference Finished Image Flashing to flash the downloaded image file to the development board.

Using mSATA SSD

Check if the system detects the mSATA SSD:

ls /dev/sd*

If you see /dev/sda device, it means the system has detected the mSATA SSD.

/dev/sda and /dev/sda1 represent the mSATA SSD and its first partition respectively.

Create a mount point and mount the first partition of the mSATA SSD to that directory:

mkdir /mnt/msata
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/msata

Check the mount status:

df -h

Note

After use, remember to unmount the partition before removing the mSATA SSD:

umount /mnt/msata