So… I’ve followed what directions I can find for the pimironi base duo. The A and B lights are lit when booted. What I don’t know is where the nvme disk is supposed to show up. I’ve got the firmware to the may 17th one. I’ve rebooted a few times. I see it probing the PCIe stuff, but I’m not sure what to look for.
Entering lsblk in a terminal should show you a list of what drives you have connected. If you want to install an OS, they should show up in the destination list in RPi Imager, or if you want to use them as storage you’ll probably need to mount them somewhere:
Soooo… while I was waiting for a reply, I reseated both ends of the cable and rebooted. lsblk is still as above. Note from above: https://termbin.com/90hd is still the dmesg output.
Hmm, are you using Raspberry Pi OS, or another OS? (and are you using the official PSU?)
I’d probably try the drives one at a time to see if I could narrow down on where the problem lies - looks like Samsung 970 Evo is down as a ‘maybe’ on our NVMe Base compatibility list with ‘some user reports of problems under heavy load or not showing up on boot’, so it might be this drive that’s not playing nicely with RPi?
OK. I fetched a known good WD blue SN550 from my collection. Still nothing showing on the pi.
I would post a link to my dmesg, but I always use t3rmb1n.c0m (translate my hacker speak) and this site won’t allow it. If you can figure it out, it’s ws3s.
Hmm, looks like we’ve found WD Blue drives also to be somewhat problematic - is it ‘known good’ with RPi 5?
It sounds like you’ve tried a bunch of different drives at this point though, so if you’d like us to send you out a new Base to try then drop support a message: Submit a ticket : Pimoroni
Please include a couple of photos of your setup and a link to this thread.