[maemo-users] Hangs writing to SDHC?

[From: James Knott]

David Hagood wrote:
> Over the past couple of days, my N800 has developed a problem writing to
> one of the two 8 gig SDHC cards I have in it (the external card).
>
> I can format the card and all is well, but as soon as I try to write any
> significant amount of data to the card, the writing process will block
> and never unblock. Indicated CPU will go to 100%. SSH'ing in and running
> a "sync" will cause the sync command to block forever.
> Tailing /var/log/syslog and/or running dmesg shows no unusual warning
> messages.
>
> Does anybody have any good suggestions for where to go from here?
>
>   

First, try to determine if the problem is with the card or slot.  Swap
the cards to see if the problem moves.  If it does, the card is defective.


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