Re: [ARMini-support] Warning - use caution if you need to Revert to OS3

  • From: Andrew Pinder <Andrew.Pinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: armini-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:41:40 +0100

In message <34369c8552.rcomp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 on 24 Apr 2012 A Rawnsley <rcomp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



>>> We apologise if this causes any inconvenience, and obviously if you do
>>> manage to corrupt your SD card, we'll be happy to swap it out for you.

>>> On a tangential note, this is *exactly* the kind of reason why the
>>> CMOS widget was introduced, to make the SD card "read only", like the
>>> old RISC OS ROM.

>> So does having the CMOS widget installed prevent the problem?

> That's not what I said - it demonstrates why writing directly to the
> card isn't a good plan, as it can result in corruption.  One of the
> purposes of the widget is to prevent the need to constantly write to
> the uSD card.

Thanks for the clarification.


Regards

Andrew
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