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Holiday Upgrade Disasters (feddit.uk)

submitted 6 months ago by Cyber@feddit.uk to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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So, just a light post, I upgraded my Pi4 last night and found the Linux firmware breaks a 32bit install.

I've been meaning to change to 64bit for months, but as it's my DMZ box for torrents, radicale, etc, then it's just finding the right time to convert an adhoc setup into my ansible scripts.

Luckily I had a SD backup from September to get it running again

So, what have you broken over the holidays?

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’ve had some luck with portable drives by removing the drive from enclosure and attaching it directly to sata-bus instead of USB

I did try removing it from the enclosure in hopes to hook it to a USB3.0 to IDE/SATA which also includes legacy stuff. However this drive (HD Passport) has the micro-b soldered onto the drive board. I've tried several different micro-b to whatever connections, but no joy. The drive won't initialize and reports a fatal hardware error when I try. When initially plugged in, you can physically feel the platter spin momentarily, and the power light comes on. But the platter will stop spinning and the power light will start blinking on and off. This drive has been beat up, dropped, etc, in a camera gear bag. I'm actually surprised it hasn't failed before now.

[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 months ago

If it tries to start but doesn't do anything it's pretty much a lost cause then as the drive gets power but fails to initialize. In theory a simple broken solder joint somewhere might cause that and that might be fixable, but that requires at least somewhat decent soldering station and some experience. Or maybe you could get a donor board and swap out memory chips from the old one, but that's even more tricky. Hopefully it's not too expensive lesson.