Yes, I think you are exactly right.. You've worn it out. I build these for a living - Flash has a finite life, no matter what you do with kernels, applications, or filesystems. Eventually it will wear out. Most go read-only when this happens, a few still go 'under' when they figure out they can't continue...
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:34 AM, andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not entirely on-topic, but this problem is delaying > 7i76/7i69/7i70/7i71 support, so is at least vaguely relevant. > > My setup is a bit strange. I have a part-finished CNC controller up in > my workroom which is a flatscreen, D510 with PicoPSU and SATA DOM SSD. > This has accidentally become an EMC2 development platform. > I actually do the development from the comfort of the living room, > editing the code with XCode on my Mac with the git repo > remote-mounted, and kicking of compiles and debugging in halcmd > through SSH. > > Last night I started to have problems saving a file to the EMC2 > machine. When I went upstairs to the machine it had dozens of > identical error dialogs on screen stacked on top of each other, > complaining about a problem with XKB (KBX? KXB? something about Gnome > and Keyboard anyway) > After I rebooted it would only start in low graphics mode (and then > wouldn't actually boot to a gui). > This morning it brings up a login dialog (which is unusual) and won't > let me log in with the correct password (though this _might_ be a > keyboard translation problem, it's hard to say). > ssh from the Mac times out, and there is a pop up about Gnome Power Manager. > > My suspicion is is that I have worn out the SSD after a year of dozens > of EMC2 compiles every night. (If I had known I was going to use the > machine this way I wouldn't have used an SSD). Does this sound likely? > > Getting the data off the SSD ought to be easy enough (if it still > works read-only, which I suspect it will) if I can find some way to > connect it to something else. I have an eSATA port, but would need an > adaptor to plug in the SSD which is SATA + separate 5V connector. I > hopefully have a remote backup too. (I took a "Snapshot" in Xcode. I > am hoping that does what I think it does) > > -- > atp > "Torque wrenches are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men" > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
