-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I would like to report that while I've had a lot of trouble with my 4GB SDHC card as a separate FAT partition, after a recent (2 weeks ago) reinstall it works fine. Lenny is installed to the internal SSD, but I use the media card for my home folder and some other data, and it works fine. There obviously is something wrong if it fails on a lot of devices (judging by the reports on the list), but it does work occasionally.
Kasper Loopstra Richard Minutillo wrote: > Ben Armstrong wrote about cleaning up the WIki. Maybe it's also time > to cleanup the misinformation about the internal SD card reader in > some EeePC mmodels like my 701 4G. > > There are only two true facts that I can state about the card reader > in my 4G: (1) 'Lenny' consistently fails to access SDHC cards in the > internal reader. (2) No other operating system, including Debian > variants, that I have tried have any difficulty with SDHC cards or > any other cards of whatever size that I've tried in the internal > reader. > > So if all other software works with the hardware, it's a safe bet > that Lenny's unique problems are related to some flaw in the > software which no one seems to be working on, since the Wiki and > other sources consider it to be a hardware problem. > > Case in point: I successfully installed Ubuntu 7.04 onto a 4 Gig > SDHC card in the internal reader in my 4G, and successfuly booted > off that card for many weeks. I also used other SD and SDHC cards in > the same reader using the native Xandros with no issues whatsoever. > The debian eeepc installer, however, consistently failed to > recognize or write to that card, usually firing off an error like: > > "sense: unrecovered read error" and/or "I/O error /dev/sdc sector > 7812088" > > Now I have use the same installer to install Lenny on the internal > SSHD, and the installed system still fails to deal with SDHC cards > in the internal slot, yet It can easily deal with a new plain 8Gig > non SDHC card in the same slot. > > So someone should clean up the references to the internal SD reader > for the 701 series on the Wiki, someone should write a more accurate > warning about trying to install to SDHC, and most importantly, > someone should figure out what's broken in Lenny and fix it. > > Richard Minutillo > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklWVmYACgkQL/UrUcMAn7fUowCgo0Z228rdKok5GV1S0rFXKfKv X/oAnj9so3BuL/eybqs4ZONx2yIO3I5y =+z6w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
