[Arm-netbook] RAM, uboot

[David Given]

Mike Thompson wrote:
[...]
> Thanks to your efforts with the kernel I have a Debian Wheezy armhf
> system running on the Mele A1000.  Unfortunately, as I've started to
> use this system to run builds of some large Debian packages I'm seeing
> infrequent SATA errors that are corrupting the ext4 file system and
> causing my builds to fail.

I haven't been seeing anything like that, but I *have* had persistent
minor file system corruption, and have been getting other really weird
errors and crashes over the weekend, reported elsewhere.

I haven't been able to look into it due to RL issues (it's not a good
day to be an ARM in my household; my otherwise reliable SheevaPlug
server had massive filesystem corruption and I had to spend some time
rebuilding its filesystem).

I dunno. My knowledge basically extends to turning the driver on and
doing basic low-level debugging. Power does seem plausible, though. A
lot of cheapo power supplies are extremely dubious. I've noticed that if
I unplug the main power while the A1000 is hooked up to the serial
console, the HDD powers down but about 2/3 of the time the processor
stays running!

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