jemhayward wrote: > I know this is "bad practice" but has anyone had any specific issues > with simply pulling the power plug to put their Wandboard/CSOS to bed? > I *think* this naughtiness is causing my SD card corruption issue. > If it absolutely must be powered down in an orderly fashion, I was > thinking about some form of UPS type system where the board is kept > alive for a short time by a battery, and it detects the loss of mains > power, and runs some form of shutdown script. I don't know enough about > the hardware or Linux to know if this is even possible. > I suspect most people leave it powered up 24/7 but we get quite a few > powercuts, so some form of failsafe would be useful.
If you search further back in this thread you will find some posts discussing a fairly simple switch circuit and related code which allows for a push button power off. Sorry can't remember who posted it but it was a few weeks ago... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slackhead's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13963 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99395 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
