Hey there,
I am a long time user of your armbian operating system. It is great, I am using it for a simple home NAS system.
But I have found one problem with armbian, which is very annoying:
My standard Banana Pi keeps loosing the HDD Ive connected over Sata. It is a 3,5" Seagate Barracude 3TB drive formated as Ext4. It gets 5V and 12V power and runs quite perfect, as long as it has something to do. It spins up and down as I configured it.
But when I leave the pi for a longer time period unattended (no workload), and the harddrive stays in spindown-mode too long, it wont identify the HDD anymore. The mount point and the /dev/sda are gone.
I need to powercycle the whole system to get everything back up.
Things I tried:
fresh armbian, with fresh formated drive -> same problem
fresh armbian, with another drive (WD green) -> same problem
I noticed this problem quite a while a go, but never got to posting it. Hope somebody has an answer.
Thanks in advance