I've got a 4G Patriot SDHC card that has been serving me well on my EeePC for a couple of months. It was partitioned and formatted as Ext2 with EeeXubuntu on it.
When I first got my AspireOne, I put the SDHC card in the left slot. I could see the directory structure and files, so I tried to boot onto it only to find that there seems to be no BIOS setting to do so. After booting back into Linpus, I noted that I couldn't see my existing data any more, but it now had folders called My Music, My Documents, My Pictures, etc.
Once I understood that this left slot is "special" in that it extends the existing storage, I figured that it must build these folders when you plug something in, stupidly trashing whatever you may have there. Bogus, but possibly by design.
Not long afterward, I found that I couldn't see anything on that SDHC any more. Dropping to terminal and using cfdisk /dev/mmcblk0 I could see that the partition table was lost. Being that I hadn't formatted it on this machine, I figured I needed to do that. I set it up as ext2 and it turned up, so I copied a bunch of music files to it.
Since that time I have installed Ubuntu 8.04.1 as per WanderingStar's instructions. I'm pretty happy with it with the exception of the mic that has yet to work.
I have had this SDHC card lose its partition table twice in the last couple of days, just out of the blue it does not turn up as a mounted device after boot and I check dmesg and cfdisk to find that it doesn't recognize the partition.
I will try formatting it again and putting it into the Right-hand slot to see if it has the same behaviour, but it's disconcerting.
Anyone with similar issues?
When I first got my AspireOne, I put the SDHC card in the left slot. I could see the directory structure and files, so I tried to boot onto it only to find that there seems to be no BIOS setting to do so. After booting back into Linpus, I noted that I couldn't see my existing data any more, but it now had folders called My Music, My Documents, My Pictures, etc.
Once I understood that this left slot is "special" in that it extends the existing storage, I figured that it must build these folders when you plug something in, stupidly trashing whatever you may have there. Bogus, but possibly by design.
Not long afterward, I found that I couldn't see anything on that SDHC any more. Dropping to terminal and using cfdisk /dev/mmcblk0 I could see that the partition table was lost. Being that I hadn't formatted it on this machine, I figured I needed to do that. I set it up as ext2 and it turned up, so I copied a bunch of music files to it.
Since that time I have installed Ubuntu 8.04.1 as per WanderingStar's instructions. I'm pretty happy with it with the exception of the mic that has yet to work.
I have had this SDHC card lose its partition table twice in the last couple of days, just out of the blue it does not turn up as a mounted device after boot and I check dmesg and cfdisk to find that it doesn't recognize the partition.
I will try formatting it again and putting it into the Right-hand slot to see if it has the same behaviour, but it's disconcerting.
Anyone with similar issues?
