May-02-2019, 04:37 PM
** BE WARNED **
This may be a Linux Mint or Debian issue, or may be related to the driver, not sure, but at any rate, it can destroy your Boot disk (I just recovered from this).
I was running Linux Mint 19.
here's what lead up to the problem.
to the hard drive.
I don't know if this is reproducible, (if it is indeed memory mapped I/O problem, arrangement of these mem vectors may very well be different from install to install) and I don't want to try and find out. All I can advise is to be very careful when writing to one of these devices.
This may be a Linux Mint or Debian issue, or may be related to the driver, not sure, but at any rate, it can destroy your Boot disk (I just recovered from this).
I was running Linux Mint 19.
here's what lead up to the problem.
- I was backing up the source of a project onto a Sandisk microSDHC UHS-1 32GB card.
- I stupidly didn't check the size of my project because i 'knew' that is was smaller by far then 32 GB
- I made the (again stupid) mistake of copying the entire project, including data (about 200GB) onto the microSD.
- copy started without a size warning, and within a short period of time proceeded to overwrite the microSD, and continue
writing onto what turned out to be my boot disk.
to the hard drive.
I don't know if this is reproducible, (if it is indeed memory mapped I/O problem, arrangement of these mem vectors may very well be different from install to install) and I don't want to try and find out. All I can advise is to be very careful when writing to one of these devices.