[Tinker Board 3S]Windows Laptop doesn’t recognize TinkerBoard3S

[ryo 0]

Hello,

I am trying to burn DebianOS into TinkerBoard3S(not Tinker3).

I connected the Tinker to my Windows Laptop(Windows11) with a USB-MicroB cable as described in the instructions in this manual(https://tinker-board.asus.com/download/E22692_Tinker_Board_3_UM_WEB.pdf),

but the Laptop does not recognize it.(Also, it is not recognized as a target by balenaEtcher).

・Current Status
The Red LED on the back is on. When I connected the 3S via USB to Laptop, the device is listed as “unknown device” in the device manager of the windows Laptop.

I tried the following, but the results were the same.
・Replace the USB cable.
・Change the USB port(of laptop)
・Connecting to other windows laptop
・Update and Reboot Windows.

Is there anything else I need to do regarding the setup?

[tooz 52]

hello @ryo, 

have you adjusted the dip switches to 1 and 2 so the board is in emmc mode? (on the other hand if you set them to 'on', it would be in sd card mode)

 

[ryo 0]

Thank you so much for your kind message and help. 
I tried with both dip switches turned off as shown in the picture, but the result was the same.

Is there anything else I should check?

Anyway, I burn the OS to the SD card. I succeed to run OS from the SD card. I am not sure that it shows the recognition result of the emmc, but the results of "fdisk -l" is below:

linaro@linaro-alip:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/ram0: 4 MiB, 4194304 bytes, 8192 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 14.56 GiB, 15634268160 bytes, 30535680 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 28.82 GiB, 30945574912 bytes, 60440576 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 73987B6B-4974-4C94-A3E8-58AB2EB7A946

Device          Start      End  Sectors  Size Type
/dev/mmcblk1p1  16384    24575     8192    4M unknown
/dev/mmcblk1p2  24576    32767     8192    4M unknown
/dev/mmcblk1p3  32768   163839   131072   64M unknown
/dev/mmcblk1p4 163840   294911   131072   64M unknown
/dev/mmcblk1p5 294912   360447    65536   32M unknown
/dev/mmcblk1p6 360448   393215    32768   16M unknown
/dev/mmcblk1p7 393216   524287   131072   64M unknown
/dev/mmcblk1p8 524288 60440511 59916224 28.6G unknown

The size of SD card is 32GB.
I also attached the screenshot  of the desktop.



I would like to note that, we have not recognize the tinker from the windows laptop yet.
Best regards,

[tooz 52]

hello @ryo, 

since you have sd image ready, you can flash tinker board 3's emmc in ums mode. please keep the sd card in the board and

1. switch all the dip switches to off

2. connect tinker board 3 and laptop with micro usb cable

3. power on, open device manager and see if the board is recognised as 'ASUS Tinker UMS USB Device'

4. use balena etcher to flash it

 

[ryo 0]

hello @tooz,

Thank you so much for your kind message and help. 

I was  able to burn the OS using the method you answered.

 

Thank you so much for your prompt response.

Best regards,