Of course he is right, and this should be common knowledge / sense to everyone. What happens when you just pull the plug on *ANY* computer while an OS is running ? Maybe nothing, to start with. But eventually, you're going to have a problem.
Windows will likely "fail silently" as in it will not let you know a problem on your disk exists( unless you caused a boot loader issue), until things become very unstable over time to the point you have to find the problem / cure yourself. Usually this calls for chkdsk, which has to be run on the OS partition at boot (can not be done with the OS running live ). Linux from my experience will complain very loudly at boot, and may / may not run properly afterwards, Anyway, it *should* be obvious that the BBB is a development board. And IMHO a very good one especially considering the price. So, if some dufus comes onto the groups here pissing and moaning about how x.y.z isnt perfect for them. Well you know what ? They are not the target audience anyhow. I kind of view these types as children who try stamping their feet trying to get what they want. Which personally I have no patience for. Thank you Gerald, Robert, and the many others in the community for making an excellent dev board. On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 1:18 PM, John Syn <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 5/27/14, 7:27 AM, "Robert Nelson" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 9:21 AM, David Farning <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Over the last couple of days there have been several threads about > >> powering the BBB up and powering it down. Please correct me if I am > >> wrong: > >> > >> 1. Currently, there is no assurance that powering headers during power > >> up will not damage the board. > >> > >> 2. Currently, there is no assurance that pulling the plug will result > >> in a clean shut down. > > > >I find it odd, users just don't get this 2nd point. There are "things" > >we could do to make it survive an un-clean shutdown (such as read only > >file system setup). But I'm not designing your final "product", we are > >giving you a development system to run your applications on. It's up > >to you to bullet proof the software, or if your unable to do that, you > >can pay ($) some consultant to do it. > Robert you are exactly right. Even more importantly, solutions to these > problems have been discussed on this mailing list. All anyone has to do is > search google groups for these solutions. > > Regards, > John > > > >Regards, > > > >-- > >Robert Nelson > >http://www.rcn-ee.com/ > > > >-- > >For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > >--- > >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >"BeagleBoard" group. > >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > >email to [email protected]. > >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
