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  • Micro SD card not latching in Pi

    From Brian Jordan@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 3 14:24:34 2022
    XPost: comp.sys.acorn.hardware

    My Pi stopped working today! Quite suddenly and with no prior indication
    that anything was wrong. On investigation I found the RISC OS Micro SD
    card wasn't latched into its holder and that no attempt to re-latch it
    would work. Obviously there was a fix, or I wouldn't be writing this, but
    it isn't pretty - better described as a bodge than repair.
    I wonder if anyone else has seen this.

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    _____________________________________________________________________

    Brian Jordan
    RISC OS 5.28 (16-Dec-20) on Raspberry Pi _____________________________________________________________________

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  • From Chris Newman@21:1/5 to brian.jordan9@btinternet.com on Fri Jun 3 16:00:15 2022
    In article <59f2c5edefbrian.jordan9@btinternet.com>, Brian Jordan <brian.jordan9@btinternet.com> wrote:
    My Pi stopped working today! Quite suddenly and with no prior
    indication that anything was wrong. On investigation I found the RISC
    OS Micro SD card wasn't latched into its holder and that no attempt to re-latch it would work. Obviously there was a fix, or I wouldn't be
    writing this, but it isn't pretty - better described as a bodge than
    repair. I wonder if anyone else has seen this.

    Which model/flavour of Pi?

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    Chris Newman

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  • From Chris Hughes@21:1/5 to Chris Newman on Fri Jun 3 16:29:37 2022
    In message <59f2ceb1afcvjazz@waitrose.com>
    Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> wrote:

    In article <59f2c5edefbrian.jordan9@btinternet.com>, Brian Jordan <brian.jordan9@btinternet.com> wrote:
    My Pi stopped working today! Quite suddenly and with no prior
    indication that anything was wrong. On investigation I found the RISC
    OS Micro SD card wasn't latched into its holder and that no attempt to
    re-latch it would work. Obviously there was a fix, or I wouldn't be
    writing this, but it isn't pretty - better described as a bodge than
    repair. I wonder if anyone else has seen this.

    Which model/flavour of Pi?

    I have heard of the issue, and various workaround people used.



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    Chris Hughes

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  • From druck@21:1/5 to Chris Newman on Fri Jun 3 22:34:58 2022
    On 03/06/2022 16:00, Chris Newman wrote:
    In article <59f2c5edefbrian.jordan9@btinternet.com>, Brian Jordan <brian.jordan9@btinternet.com> wrote:
    My Pi stopped working today! Quite suddenly and with no prior
    indication that anything was wrong. On investigation I found the RISC
    OS Micro SD card wasn't latched into its holder and that no attempt to
    re-latch it would work. Obviously there was a fix, or I wouldn't be
    writing this, but it isn't pretty - better described as a bodge than
    repair. I wonder if anyone else has seen this.

    Which model/flavour of Pi?

    I assume it's one of the earlier Pi's with the sprung SD card "launch
    and lose" system, which is why they no longer use it in more recent models.

    It should not be possible for the card to fail to latch in an unsprung
    slot, unless some foreign object is in there.

    ---druck

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  • From charles@21:1/5 to Brian Jordan on Tue Aug 2 16:51:14 2022
    In article <59f2c5edefbrian.jordan9@btinternet.com>,
    Brian Jordan <brian.jordan9@btinternet.com> wrote:
    My Pi stopped working today! Quite suddenly and with no prior indication
    that anything was wrong. On investigation I found the RISC OS Micro SD
    card wasn't latched into its holder and that no attempt to re-latch it
    would work. Obviously there was a fix, or I wouldn't be writing this, but
    it isn't pretty - better described as a bodge than repair.
    I wonder if anyone else has seen this.

    Gaffer tape? It cures many problems.

    --
    from KT24 in Surrey, England - sent from my RISC OS 4té
    "I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

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  • From Brian Jordan@21:1/5 to charles on Tue Aug 2 19:47:40 2022
    In article <5a11b984a3charles@candehope.me.uk>,
    charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> wrote:
    In article <59f2c5edefbrian.jordan9@btinternet.com>,
    Brian Jordan <brian.jordan9@btinternet.com> wrote:
    My Pi stopped working today! Quite suddenly and with no prior
    indication that anything was wrong. On investigation I found the RISC
    OS Micro SD card wasn't latched into its holder and that no attempt
    to re-latch it would work. Obviously there was a fix, or I wouldn't
    be writing this, but it isn't pretty - better described as a bodge
    than repair. I wonder if anyone else has seen this.

    Gaffer tape? It cures many problems.

    The aforementioned bodge is exactly that.

    B

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    Brian Jordan
    RISC OS 5.28 (16-Dec-20) on Raspberry Pi _____________________________________________________________________

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