My system stopped recording last night, its been up ad running for only a week or so.
The raspi is no longer connecting to the network or the emoncld. Have checked cables and even swapped the Pi for a spare i had with no joy.
Is it likely for the SD card to have failed, as I have never seen it happen and it would be a little unusual. it is however the only thing i am unable to test? I could rebuild the card but thought I would ask before going to the trouble.
Re: Raspi/SD card problem?
Welcome to the club Ian!!
2 of my SD cards did exactly the same within a matter of weeks, so I moved my RootFS to a USB HDD and have had no problems since.
It's strange that some forum members don't appear to have a problem with failing SD cards, whilst others are blighted.
Paul
Re: Raspi/SD card problem?
There is a pile of fried SD cards on my desk and I also had no luck with an USB stick.
My solution is an iSCSI disk on my QNAP NAS running 24/7, rather easy to implement the software following
http://elinux.org/RPi_iSCSI_Initiator
Now my emoncms is running on a Pi that boots once from SD card and writes and reads all data to and from the iSCSI drive.
For me it is the perfect solution
khs
Re: Raspi/SD card problem?
Plus one, or rather two...
I have had 2 SD cards corrupt in the last month. The first lasted 5 months and the second corrupted yesterday, following a sudo reboot, after only 4 weeks.
Like Paul I will be changing my set-up, but as I am running on a headless, wifi model A my options are limited. Didn't think SD cards would be the big ticket cost for a raspi set-up...
Bob
Re: Raspi/SD card problem?
iSCSI sounds like a great option, I pretty much don't like attaching a USB hard drive to the Raspberry Pi. The downside is that it is pretty complicated to set it up for most of the Pi users
Re: Raspi/SD card problem?
What's the problem with USB HDD's?
Mine was easy to set up, and performs reliably.
Paul
Re: Raspi/SD card problem?
purely aesthetical :)
Re: Raspi/SD card problem?
I'll agree with that!
Paul
Re: Raspi/SD card problem?
And it adds another 3w to the consumption total ... I know it's not much but ... If you already have some hard disks spinning for other reasons in the house ....