Re: this mornings update bricked my pi.

[Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.debian-arm@telemetry.co.uk>]

I agree, with the caveat that not all adapters are created equal. We've 
got some branded "Canyon" which take both full-sized and Micro SDCards, 
and their performance is much better- in terms of both speed and 
reliability- than older ones. http://canyon.eu/product/cne-card2/

I'd also warn people to be /very/ careful with any RPi case that doesn't 
fasten the board down well, I've managed to physically crack two cards 
by getting them wedged against the edge of the slot: I'm not naturally 
hamfisted and aren't happy about it. And those cards were flashing once 
or twice at boot...

On 02/05/17 13:30, Alan Corey wrote:
> Hmm, only 1 Pi and 1 SD card?  Got a reader for the SD card you can
> use to fsck the card in another Linux box?  Heck, you should be able
> to mount it and do stuff to it.  Might be able to find a reader at a
> photo place.
>
> On 5/2/17, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > It flashes the green led 3 or 4 times in the first second of powerup, and
> > dead, so I assume the sd card is now trashed.
> >
> > This was rasbian, running a special pre-empt-rt kernel.
> >
> > Where can I find some help?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> > --
> > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> >  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> > -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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