microSD adapter for Renegade emmc
i am trying to find an adapter for the renegade's emmc chip to copy from and to images using my laptop. i have an adapter for the odroid emmc, unfortunately male and female are reversed between the two boards. realized that after i had tried to force the renegade emmc onto the odroid adapter and saw that i had broken all the pins ... ouch. any suggestions on where i might find a renegade emmc compatible adapter for usb or microsd. thanks,
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There is no adapter. You can flash eMMC via a SD card with Linux on it.
bummer. that makes backing up and burning the OS from the emmc a multistage process, which is annoying. alternatively, are there solutions with which i can start the libre with emmc as an external usb hard disk and then mount it on my laptop to at least burn the disk into a backup image? like target disk mode on a mac? can i mount the emmc as an ssfhs volume? just casting for options ...
I made the same mistake and have a useless memory stick/emmc card now. If I knew for certain that the pinouts were compatible, I may consider changing the plug on the USB adapter. Where did you obtain the correct emmc board from?
I got 1 before off amazon , and some from
https://www.loverpi.com/collections/libre-computer-project/products/libre-computer-board-emmc-5-x-module?variant=41735577293
You can program the eMMC directly from your board with the Type A to Type A cable. See https://libre.computer/2018/05/02/comprehensive-documentation-for-roc-rk3328-cc-by-firefly-team/
so, i'll revive my earlier post because i am hoping a microSD/usb adapter has become available since my initial post. the renegade would easily be my favorite workhorse for maker projects if flashing to the emmc would not be such an utter mess. maskrom/rockusb modes/rkdeveloptools is awkward af, there are missing bits of info throughout, and running it produces a plethora of errors in my hand. Cornelius' suggestion to boot from microSD then image with gnome-disk to emmc works and is a godsent for getting this to work - but it is just so damn clumsy compared to attaching the emmc for my odroid to an adapter and imaging to it as i would to any other SD. anyone know of a microSD adapter that is compatible with the renegade emmc? offering a box of my favorite chocolates as bribe ...