DietPi

More testing with some interesting results. I tried the usb-storage trick with my second Pi 4 and a different USB 3 adapter. Again, everything seemed to be fine. Until I tried to connect to wifi hotspot which didn't work. It took me a while but I think I finally found out what was going on. My findi...

femispam wrote: ↑Tue Apr 14, 2020 12:02 am I hope this idea is helpful to someone

Sounds interesting. I have two routers running OpenWRT and two Pi3s lying around. Maybe I could do something fun or even useful with them

Looking forward to further information!

I just did a quick google search and found this sticky at Raspberrypi board. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=245931 Yep exactly that one. baz123 also referred to that post earlier but I guess it didn't help in his case. Just wanted to say it solved my problem with a SATA SSD and ...

I had a similar experience to what baz123 described. I tried DietPi on Pi4 with a Kingston 480 GB SATA SSD drive and an adapter identified as JMicron USB to ATA/ATAPI Bridge. Transferring root file system to the SSD would always cause a disk failure. Some time ago I found an old USB 2 SATA case and ...