ESATA drive attaching

Installing and Using OpenWrt
2

In general esata/usb works the same, only difference is that you don't need the USB kmod drivers and instead need the sata ones.

  • make sure the sata kmods are installed, the last is device/chip specific: kmod-ata-ahci, kmod-ata-core, kmod-ata-???-sata
  • add the kmod for the FS of your choice, by default only ext4 is present: kmod-fs-f2fs, kmod-fs-btrfs, kmod-fs-exfat - NOTE: avoid ntfs if possible
  • Use Gparted to setup/format your drive via Bootiso or PartitionWizard Portable on Windows
  • Luci has options under System/Mountpoints to manage the detected disks, aka fstab
  • Optional use Samba3/4 or Ksmbd to share the drive via SMB, Luci packages are named: luci-app-samba3/4, luci-app-ksmbd
  • Optional add the wsdd2 package to make the shares visible in windows
  • Optional add the avahi-dbus-daemon and/or ksmbd-avahi-service (ksmbd only) to make the shares visible for Linux/MacOS

PS: In general the luci-app-xy packages have all the dependencies needed, so try to just install those first and all extra required packages should be also pulled in automatically.

4 Likes