On 07/03/2016 15:24, M. Piscaer wrote: Thanks. I will try that on Wed when I am back next to our LO site.
-Hank > Hi Hank, > > On https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8oF0MaoUlQ I saw that you can use an > new clean USB disk. When the usb disk is FAT formated, the probe will > use that new usb stick. > > Kind regards, > > Michiel Piscaer > > On 07-03-16 14:09, Hank Nussbacher wrote: >> On 07/03/2016 10:49, Gert Doering wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 10:39:47AM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote: >>>> What does that mean? I can try reseating the USB again, but if that >>>> doesn't work, it could be the USB is fried? >>> Try the USB stick in a "normal" PC and see whether it can be formatted >>> there. I recently had one of mine completely break - the stick could be >>> seen, but it was empty and all write access failed. >> I pulled the USB stick and tried formatting it. Even though it says 4GB >> Sandisk, I could only get it to 1GB. >> So I opened a new probe, extracted its USB stick and stuck it into the >> probe as well (unformatted). Still off-line. >> >> I went to our "lights out" facility 3x today - a 15 minute brisk walk >> across campus and don't have time to >> go there again. >> >> At home it is far easier to play with these things then it is when the >> probe is installed as close to your network core as possible (which is >> usually at a LO facility). I know exactly how you feel! >> >> -Hank >> >>> I'm not sure what the Atlas v3 does with its USB stick, but this is the >>> number one problem issue... maybe a new firmware version could be designed >>> that has more advanced flash handling (like, ubifs instead of "normal" >>> filesystems) and falls back to "not use flash if the flash is broken". >>> >>> What I see with my probes is that the aim of the flash buffer ("we can >>> store measurement results if we can't upload them to the control server >>> due to network outages etc." -> less probability of result loss) is >>> actually backfiring into "extended downtimes of probes due to USB breakage >>> of probes in locations where you can't just-so swap the USB flash"... >>> (two of my 3 v3 probes have had virtually no network outages since they >>> are operating, and the central servers also had few outages - but both >>> have been down for weeks because I just had no time to go out, buy a >>> new flash drive, and *drive over* to replace it - once again) >>> >>> Gert Doering >>> -- NetMaster >> >>
