The phyCORE-AM57x Development Kit brings out SATA mass storage device connectivity to the Molex data connector at X11 and the power connector at X12. This guide will walk you through the basic usage of this interface.
Requirements
Item
Item Numbers (Description)
SATA Power Cable
SATA 22pin Serial ATA Data and Power Combo Cable
Hard Drive
Connecting Hard Drive and SATA Cable
Connecting Peripherals
Ensure that your phyCORE-AM57x development kit is turned off and the power supply has been disconnected.
Connect your SATA Mass Storage device to the connectors X11 and X12.
Reconnect the power supply and boot into Linux.
Check that your SATA storage device was configured correctly:
Create a random file and copy it to the SATA drive. Notice in the above example output that the SATA drive was automatically mounted to the device sda. Make note of the device your drive was assigned to as you will need to specify this correctly in the following steps by replacing <x> (from the example above, since the SATA drive was attached to the device sda we would replace the the <x> in the following command with 'a').