Dear Community ,
I recently downloaded the omv_3.0.51_rpi2_rpi3.img.gz for my raspberry pi 3 BUT I think that the image has serious problems on USB drivers support. Here is my problem…in details..!!
I have successfully downloaded the image , checked and burned 4 times on a SD 16Gbytes card. The raspberry pi3 was booting ok BUT when I attached my external case self-powered hard usb disk the problems started to appear and drove me crazy…!!
At first it was recognized but could not mount the drive. (The drive was formatted at first at ntfs and then in ext4- that was not the problem though). Then when I reboot the raspberry pi3 with the above disk attached COULD’T boot at all ( blinking green and red all the time…!!!!) I was surprised at all because the dmesg command did not show any errors at all..!! Just keep looping all the time. After I have detached the disk and power of the raspberry the problem gone away…!!!
I attached the drive to my ubuntu desktop pc and the above disk was seen fine. !
At first I thought that the raspberry was damaged, BUT I decided after 4 attempts of burning the omv_3.0.51_rpi2_rpi3 image, to burn a different image from the official raspberry page. I burned the latest Jessie image and when I attached the above external disk was seen fine without any problems or endless loops.!
So as final thoughts I am convinced that this image — omv_3.0.51_rpi2_rpi3 — have problems with the usb’s drivers or so..!!! What do you recommend to do ???? Openmediavault is a good job and I must try it as an IT professional / support to choose what to do with my job. On the other hand the raspberry community has stopped the Wheezy image and after google search I realized that openmediavault can be installed manually ONLY on Wheezy in raspberry…!!! This is a problem and it should be a version for Jessie too.! So I have no other solutions here but to find an old Wheezy image and install manually the openmediavault to it to see what will happen.
Please advice what to do !!! Do I need to try other of your images ??? I need your expertise on this please.
Thank you and I am sorry for my long blog.