On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 12:10:49PM -0400, Kevin T. Neely wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 01:52:10PM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote: > > I'm now trying to see if I can find a safe partition size that I can use > > without losing my data. > > > > I initially thought this might be related to > > https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2802 > > It seems like the tablets are plagued by similar -but not necessarily > the same- issue. I had something similar happen with my 770 a while > back, and I've seen other posts to this list the gist of which, at > least, is basically the same. > > Were you writing data from your pc to the tablet's memory card via USB > when this happened, or downloading via network? Via USB. Also locally in an ssh session. Also, locally on the tablet itself, with no USB or network traffic. > In my case, it was while downloading an album or two worth of mp3 > files. After being mounted read-only, the tablet rebooted. I put > the card in my laptop, copied the data, and reformatted the card. I > haven't had any problems since, but I do worry about it. > > As a side note, what would the proper way to format and prepare these > cards be? I should think the built-in File Manager ought to do the right thing. > Especially if one has used the card in a different system > (a phone or mp3 player) and want to make it more maemo tablet > friendly. Maemo is Linux. I'm sure it's not picky. Marius Gedminas -- Unix is the answer, but only if you phrase the question very carefully. -- Belinda Asbell -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20080331/2048cbc1/attachment.pgp
