Cheryl, I'm probably being unnecessarily pessimistic but I seem to be having a lot of problems with writing SD cards, or more correctly zeroing and writing Raspi images to them. Mike On 08/03/2013 06:13, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Hmm, well this is different from using an sd card in a raspberry pi but I use > several sd cards in mp3 players and a victor reader stream and stratus and in > my Mac's card reader. I insert and remove pretty frequently and have had most > of these cards for quite a while and I rarely have an sd card failure. Now > that i've said that, they will probably all go at once - grin! Again this > doesn't address your use with the pi; I'm just commenting on the concern > about frequent failure. > > -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK Ham Radio Callsign: G4XBF, licenced since 1982 'Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem' - Ockham's Razor Use the NVDA screen-reader, not Scientific, just Freedom: http://nvda-project.org/ =========================================================== The raspberry-vi mailing list Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/raspberry-vi Administrative contact: <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ----------------------------------------------------------- Raspberry Pi and the Raspberry Pi logo are trademarks of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. This list is not affiliated to the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the views and attitudes expressed by the subscribers to this list do not reflect those of the Foundation. Mike Ray, list creator, January 2013