That sounds like it. I saw the same on a laptop set up as a motion camera with SD card for the image storage. I seem to recall the problem is electrical, and so the impact varies across the population of XO-1. There isn't a quirk in the firmware setup. A quirk might be placed in the Linux driver to reset the card.
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 01:19:28PM -0700, Hal Murray wrote: > > georgejh...@gmail.com said: > > With so many XO1's out there, it might really be helpful, and strategic, to > > be able to have more that 1 GB storage. > > > I guess we might not know for a while how many XO1's are unreliable, when > > running off of an SD card, until we try it. > > I have an XO-1 that was setup to reboot every 4 hours. and mount an SD card. > It didn't get a lot of use, but it did test the reboot process and make sure > the WiFi worked. > > The only problems I ever saw was that it would occasionally hang during boot > because Linux couldn't talk to the SD card. It was printing out a timeout > message every second or two. There was a short pause between messages. > > I assumed it was a quirk in the firmware setup. I'll try to collect some > data if somebody wants to chase this. > > > -- > These are my opinions. I hate spam. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel