Re: SD slot + suspend
The workarounds seemed to work for me :) Apparantly it has to do with the GPS interferance workarounds.. you need to turn the (GPS interfering) idle clock back on when you suspend or else corruption. Thanks for the help, all :) On Wednesday 03 September 2008 00:26:54 Doug Jones wrote: Daniel Benoy wrote: I've been having trouble with my SD card ever since I upgraded my kernel (with the unstable feed) and turned on suspend... specifically, it got wiped out :( Multiple times. I don't know if it's a coincidence or now.. I wonder if someone who's brave and doesn't have important data on their card could try reproducing this? Mount a partition and/or run something like badblocks /dev/mmcblk0 and then while that's going suspsend... and see if your data goes poof. Maybe it's just me.. possibly a defective SD card. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community This is a known problem. I'm still waiting for a definitive resolution before I order my FR. It's not just openmoko that's affected. This same bug took down the SD card in my OLPC laptop back in January. There have been persistent rumors that there are people who understand this problem and know how to fix it. But I still haven't seen any announcement that the problem has actually, really, finally been eliminated in any shipping software. Apparently this bug doesn't affect cards of size 512MB and smaller. Many people who are trying to do things that require SD cards are working around the problem by disabling suspend. Battery life suffers, but at least development can happen. http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1802 http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6532 ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Daniel Benoy http://daniel.benoy.name ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
SD slot + suspend
I've been having trouble with my SD card ever since I upgraded my kernel (with the unstable feed) and turned on suspend... specifically, it got wiped out :( Multiple times. I don't know if it's a coincidence or now.. I wonder if someone who's brave and doesn't have important data on their card could try reproducing this? Mount a partition and/or run something like badblocks /dev/mmcblk0 and then while that's going suspsend... and see if your data goes poof. Maybe it's just me.. possibly a defective SD card. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: SD slot + suspend
If you search the list, this is discussed to death with several work arounds. On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Daniel Benoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been having trouble with my SD card ever since I upgraded my kernel (with the unstable feed) and turned on suspend... specifically, it got wiped out :( Multiple times. I don't know if it's a coincidence or now.. I wonder if someone who's brave and doesn't have important data on their card could try reproducing this? Mount a partition and/or run something like badblocks /dev/mmcblk0 and then while that's going suspsend... and see if your data goes poof. Maybe it's just me.. possibly a defective SD card. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: SD slot + suspend
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Daniel Benoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been having trouble with my SD card ever since I upgraded my kernel (with the unstable feed) and turned on suspend... specifically, it got wiped out :( It is a know bug: http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1802 Some fixes are here: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Debian#Suspend Cheers, Tim ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: SD slot + suspend
Daniel Benoy wrote: I've been having trouble with my SD card ever since I upgraded my kernel (with the unstable feed) and turned on suspend... specifically, it got wiped out :( Multiple times. I don't know if it's a coincidence or now.. I wonder if someone who's brave and doesn't have important data on their card could try reproducing this? Mount a partition and/or run something like badblocks /dev/mmcblk0 and then while that's going suspsend... and see if your data goes poof. Maybe it's just me.. possibly a defective SD card. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community This is a known problem. I'm still waiting for a definitive resolution before I order my FR. It's not just openmoko that's affected. This same bug took down the SD card in my OLPC laptop back in January. There have been persistent rumors that there are people who understand this problem and know how to fix it. But I still haven't seen any announcement that the problem has actually, really, finally been eliminated in any shipping software. Apparently this bug doesn't affect cards of size 512MB and smaller. Many people who are trying to do things that require SD cards are working around the problem by disabling suspend. Battery life suffers, but at least development can happen. http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1802 http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6532 ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
