Hi everyone,
I’ve been using the BeagleBone Black for a while now. I got my apps running just fine for like 2-3 months straight, not a single problem.
OS : Debian Wheezy installed on Samsung 4GB µSD card.
Cross compilation platform : ELDK (armv7-hf)
I’ve tested my apps on different brands of SD Cards (Kingston, samsung, sandisk …) and have killed several Kingston cards in a matter of days. By killing, I mean the BeagleBone wasn’t booting on them anymore and they were no longer mounted when plugged via a USB-Card-reader. I had this kind of dmesg output (the […] here means a lot of the same 7 lines in a loop):
[626903.528266] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] Device not ready
[626903.528268] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[626903.528272] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] Sense Key : Not Ready [current]
[626903.528275] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] Add. Sense: Medium not present
[626903.528279] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
[626903.528287] end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0
[626903.528290] Buffer I/O error on device sdd, logical block 0
[626903.530266] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] Device not ready
[626903.530269] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[626903.530272] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] Sense Key : Not Ready [current]
[626903.530275] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] Add. Sense: Medium not present
[626903.530279] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
[626903.530287] end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0
[626903.530290] Buffer I/O error on device sdd, logical block 0
[626903.532391] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] Device not ready
[626903.532393] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[626903.532396] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] Sense Key : Not Ready [current]
[626903.532400] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] Add. Sense: Medium not present
[626903.532404] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 08 00
[626903.532412] end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 8
[…]
[626903.812724] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] Device not ready
[626903.812725] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[626903.812728] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] Sense Key : Not Ready [current]
[626903.812731] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] Add. Sense: Medium not present
[626903.812734] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
[626903.812740] end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0
[626903.814725] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] Device not ready
[626903.814728] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[626903.814731] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] Sense Key : Not Ready [current]
[626903.814735] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] Add. Sense: Medium not present
[626903.814739] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdd] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
[626903.814747] end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 0
[626903.820536] sdd: detected capacity change from 3947888640 to 0
That’s why I chose to use Samsung sd cards instead. Everything was fine for 2-3 whole months, but now I had one of my systems getting the exact same symptoms as when using the Kingston cards.
Did anyone experience this kind of problem using his beagle bone so far ?
Does anyone have an idea of something that could damage the SD card so much which is or isn’t directly related to the use of a beagle bone black (Heat, compulsive logging, …) ?
Can anyone suggest a brand that has solid and enduring SD Cards for an app that is logging quite regularly ?
Thank you for your time,
FT