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Re:Raspberry Pi Model A+ Board by agumonkey on Saturday November 08, 2014 @10:33AM (#8577122)
True, USB IO deadlocks and power usage causing drops/freeze made me stop using it. It was a surprise how many things can go wrong when you're out of the comfort of an industrial brand built PC board.
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Re:Raspberry Pi Model A+ Board by maguirre on Saturday November 08, 2014 @11:01AM (#8577222)
That's where I see the issues crop up. "Uncontrolled shutdowns" seem to be a killer of SD cards for me even when using R/O only filesystems. Wouldn't this be enough of a factor to point the issue towards software and not hardware though?
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Re:Raspberry Pi Model A+ Board by agumonkey on Saturday November 08, 2014 @11:03AM (#8577229)
Honestly I don't know. The rpi is a weird SoC though, and many things are handled in the GPU by a blob, even if it's software it's outside our control.
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