On 08/09/2013 06:17 AM, James Cameron wrote:
I have never been happy with using the XO-1 SD card slot.
I have been using SD cards in the XO-1 SD card slot for more than five years now. Although I have experienced occasions of SD card corruption, they have been so rare as to not affect what I've been doing with my XO-1 systems (I just "clean" the SD card and keep on using it). In those five years I have had maybe five SD card failures (the SD card stops responding electrically) out of a pool of about 40 cards -- I consider my SD cards to have provided me "acceptable reliability". [Contrast that with my experience with XO-1.5 systems - four out of ten failed (admittedly, the failures were early systems).]
By providing a swap partition on the SD card, I've been able to run *large* Linux applications (e.g., BOINC, gvSIG) on the XO-1, despite its limited main memory (I run them from Terminal in the Sugar environment, and live with the limited multi-window capability provided by Sugar). What I place on the SD card is executables (e.g., Adobe, Java, Browsers, Sugar Activities (3GB+), Timidity) and data (mainly accessed through Terminal - Movies, Books, Music, Images, Maps, etc.).
Without my 'permanent' SD card. the XO-1 would be "too little" for me. mikus _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
