Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Jump to bottom

Test Apple 12+16 mSATA SSD + no name cheapo adapter #157

Closed
htruong opened this issue Jun 26, 2021 · 2 comments
Closed

Test Apple 12+16 mSATA SSD + no name cheapo adapter #157

htruong opened this issue Jun 26, 2021 · 2 comments
Labels
testing complete

Comments

@htruong
Copy link
Contributor

htruong commented Jun 26, 2021 •
edited
Loading

  • Start from the Apple Samsung 12+16 mSATA SSD (extracted from 2015 Macbook Pro)
  • Put the SSD on a no-name adapter.
  • Put the whole thing on another no-name M.2 PCI-e to PCI-e 3.0 x4 adapter ($14 from brick and mortar Central Computer).
  • Saw the PCI-e x1 socket on the mainboard to make the card fit. Note: This slot is pretty delicate, I don't recommend using a Dremel to saw it all the way through, better use an x-acto knife when you dremelled half-way through the slot to advoid sawing the pins. I almost messed mine up.

dmesg:

[    5.527894] ata1: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
[    5.528387] ata1.00: ATA-8: APPLE SSD SM0128G, BXZ13A0Q, max UDMA/133
[    5.528409] ata1.00: 236978176 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 32), AA
[    5.529012] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
[    5.529614] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      APPLE SSD SM0128 3A0Q PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[    5.531879] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 236978176 512-byte logical blocks: (121 GB/113 GiB)
[    5.531952] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 4096-byte physical blocks
[    5.532147] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[    5.532167] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[    5.532472] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[    5.583275]  sda: sda1 sda2
[    5.586143] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk

lspci:

$ lspci -v
[...]

01:00.0 SATA controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device a801 (rev 01) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
        Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device a801
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 63
        Memory at 600000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: ahci
        Kernel modules: ahci

lsblk:

lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda           8:0    0   113G  0 disk
|-sda1        8:1    0   200M  0 part
`-sda2        8:2    0 112.8G  0 part

hdparm -tT /dev/sda:

/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:   1568 MB in  2.00 seconds = 784.21 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 882 MB in  3.00 seconds = 293.92 MB/sec

I guess it works and it's cheap but that was way too much time and effort to get it working.
htruong added a commit to htruong/raspberry-pi-pcie-devices that referenced this issue Jun 26, 2021
@htruong
geerlingguy#157 - Add entry for Apple Samsung Proprietary 12+16 SSD
21e7c48
geerlingguy pushed a commit that referenced this issue Sep 9, 2021
@htruong
#157 - Add entry for Apple Samsung Proprietary 12+16 SSD (#158)
87e1015
@geerlingguy
Copy link
Owner

Added!

melanj pushed a commit to melanj/raspberry-pi-pcie-devices that referenced this issue Nov 10, 2021
@htruong @melanj
geerlingguy#157 - Add entry for Apple Samsung Proprietary 12+16 SSD (g…
f48523a 
…eerlingguy#158)
@cTurtle98
Copy link

the adapter linked to on amazon goes the wrong way. the one linked to is an adapter for installing a normal m.2 drive into a mac instead of a mac drive

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Assignees
No one assigned
Labels
testing complete
Projects
None yet
Milestone
No milestone
Development

No branches or pull requests
3 participants
@htruong @geerlingguy @cTurtle98