OpenZaurus, a horror story..

[Beani]

if anyone has read my last post, about OpenZaurus lacking key applications..

Well, its pretty much snowballed now, i now want to smash my zaurus up against the wall.

basically, anything i put on a card gets deleted (how is this happening??)   i\'ll take an SD put it in my card reader transfer a file to it and then eject it, put it in my zaurus and open it up in the file manager... its now gone (what the?) so i\'ll eject it from the zaurus, put it back in my card reader and the file isnt on the card anymore, this has happnded continually with many files and many tries.... this thing is worthless..

than theres the package problem... any package i can manage to get on the zaurus doesnt install and back fires.

all of them come back with errors in the package manager and ofcourse dont install...


this is pretty depressing..  can someone recommend some solutions or possible a better rom??  i like the functionality of the open zaurus rom i mean with 2 clicks i can flip my screen and have a better view... BUT! what good is that without a movie to watch or a site to view?  (no media player OR browser and i cant install anything)

Hope someone can help me, this sucks...

Beani

[lardman]

I\'ll try to help if I can.

To begin with which version of OZ? and on which machine?


Simon

[lardman]

I note you have a 5500D, but which ROM?

Si

[padishah_emperor]

Use one of the Qtopia ROMs, this sound like the horror I had with OZ on a 5500.

If your card reader on a PC is Linux based make sure you dismount it properly (I imagine you must eject the device or something equivalent from a Microsoft machine too)

[lardman]

Hmm, there must be a reason behind this.......

[nhorlock]

I\'ve had various interesting games with SD but almost all of them are down to using ext2 and not being careful about where things are installed. If you stuff anything onto an SD it is safest to ensure that it is not going to be open when you suspend as my experiments showed that this would always lead to gradual decay into corruption.  Thus it is fine for data storage, and stuff that is not open for more than the time it takes to read it but forget any thought of relocating shared libs or apps there. (Side note to developers. It is not uncommon to mmap files rather than read and write, if you port or write an app that does this please bear in mind what may happen upon suspend...)

Having sadi that the description above seems much more basic than this and though I have not experienced it with SD I have had real problems with moving Smart Media between devices and this eventually came down to propietary extensions used by certain manufacturers. In my case (using the excellent pretec CF/SM card to mount the SM) if it was formatted on my dell laptop the Z would be fine. If However I had previously formatted it on my Olympus camera, the Dell would see it fine and write to it with no problems at all but the Z would not see the files at all.  This left me in a real panic one time when I was reflashing my Z!!! Is there a chance that the SD card has been formatted on a device such as a camera rather than a PC.? The cure for me was simply to reformat to VFAT on the laptop, the camera still loves it, the Z still works and all is well once again.