Install on Mini-PCIe SSD?
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Some mini PCI-e slots have only USB electrical interface. Is that true of yours?
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MiniPCIe connector might include USB, mSATA and PCIe 1x. In this case (AIMB 270) they have USB and MiniPCIe.
What brand/model is your SSD?
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Many (all?) mini-PCIe SSDs required a non-standard slot I seem to remember. Those used in early netbooks for example.
Your board mini-PCIe slot may not support sata devices at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA#mSATASteve
Edit: Now I see: @tirsojrp:
In this case (AIMB 270) they have USB and MiniPCIe
In which case it will not be possible to use an mSATA drive in that slot. At least not without some serious reworking of the board.
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On this, there seems to be some confusion out in the marketplace b/c the mSata and Mini-PCIe slots have the same appearance and dimensions, but are not interchangeable. There's also SATA and PATA.
I did take care to purchase the non-sata Mini-PCIe SSD.
In any event, I've been in contact with the manufacturer's tech support and it does not appear that the board will recognize and boot this disk, and recommends a 'disk emulator' be run to attempt to recognize the disk. I assume this would not be running under FreeBSD… Perhaps the slot was intended for a wireless adapter?
I think I'll try to go another route, get a SATA to mSata adapter and mSata SSD, and try to boot that. -
If you are looking to save $$s you can just boot from USB. That does exclude running some packages but maybe you don't need them?
Steve
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This board is complicated in many aspects. LOUD, I have to remove the minipcie to fit it in a 1u case, weird location an configuration of led and power pins, etc…
The only reason I risked buying 5 of them was the ridiculous low price I got them (CPU and RAM included) and one of them was a AIMB272 with a frigging Core i7 and 16gb.
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This board is complicated in many aspects. LOUD, I have to remove the minipcie to fit it in a 1u case, weird location an configuration of led and power pins, etc…
The only reason I risked buying 5 of them was the ridiculous low price I got them (CPU and RAM included) and one of them was a AIMB272 with a frigging Core i7 and 16gb.I agree - weird board layout, and was difficult to fit in the case. Had to make my own risers to allow room for the mini-pcie slot on the underside. Good thing about the board is low price and low power use (mine came with a mobile i3-330m) and dual Intel NICs.
Have you had any other quirks with your AIMB boards?
Do you have any reason to believe one COULD boot from a Mini-PCIe disk?
Do you have any reason to believe one could NOT boot from an mSATA SSD connected by SATA-mSATA adapter cable? -
Do you have any reason to believe one COULD boot from a Mini-PCIe disk?
Do you have any reason to believe one could NOT boot from an mSATA SSD connected by SATA-mSATA adapter cable?1 - Have not tested, But if the disk is a real mini-pcie device AND pfsense has the right driver it should work.
2 - No reason at all. -
Do you have any reason to believe one COULD boot from a Mini-PCIe disk?
1 - Have not tested, But if the disk is a real mini-pcie device AND pfsense has the right driver it should work.
Booting also needs BIOS support. The BIOS almost certainly supports booting from the on-board disk controller. It doesn't necessarily support booting from "expansion" disk controllers.
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Booting also needs BIOS support. The BIOS almost certainly supports booting from the on-board disk controller. It doesn't necessarily support booting from "expansion" disk controllers.
Agree. When BIOS didn't see the disk I knew I was hosed.
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Just for the record and for what its worth: I'm running 32 bit 2.0.3 on a Intel DN2800MT motherboard with a 64GB mSata SSD in a miniPCI Express slot.
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That mini-pcie is also a msata port.
• Two SATA ports:
― One internal SATA 3.0 Gb/s port (Port 0, black)
― One internal SATA 3.0 Gb/s port (multiplexed with an mSATA
port, routed to the PCI Express Full-/Half-Mini Card slot)
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Agree. When BIOS didn't see the disk I knew I was hosed.
Can Plop see it ? :http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/index.html
