Re: [A9home-list] How to change internal battery

Hi Paul,

> Hi Raik,
>
> Thanks for this. I will take a look at replacing my battery soon.
>
> I see you have also added an SSD >
> I did this many moons ago with the older type MLC drive, which
> subsequently developed problems. Since then I have been running from a
> Compact Flash without any issues (quick at reading, slow write speeds).


The linked zip-file was a article for the German GAG News from 2015.
My bat was gone longe time ago but the HDD make problems in summer 2015.
So I have changed.

>
> I have very recently moved to a mSATA device. Same one CJE Micros have
> been suppling with their Raspberry Pi devices. The Pi died, so decided to
> re-use the drive. Several adaptors later I finally have it all working.
> Issue I was having was the drive being seen but not booting from it (not
> to mention time outs all the time when trying to copy data between the MMC
> and it). Eventually I discovered issue was how the drive had been
> formatted. I had not reformatted it for use with my A9. It was not set
> to automount in IDEFS. Could not see any way of doing this apart from
> reformatting it. Which I did and now all working without issue.
>
> I have to say the IDE interface 0 on the A9 is very picky. Fine with the
> original hdd, but other devices, few and far between!

I have play around with any spinning HDD and SSD. No problems.
The only one was IDETool to format the drive. The original has a size
limitation. I have change to format the complete device. Is also in the
zip-file.
The SSD I use because silent, faster and cool. The original was a bit
hot any times and than I get the problems.

>
> One thing that did come out of my issues with my hdd change was a new
> appreciation of the RISC OS Select boot menu. Something I had never
> really explored in the past.
>
> Having backup my A9 hdd via network to my Armbook, I realised (after many
> frustions) that it I could network boot my A9 from the Armbook via ShareFS
> and have a fully operational machine (USB stack and all). Much easier
> then to get me device back up and running. I have now a folder on my
> Armbook with a fairly vanilla boot sequence for my A9, just in case I need
> it again. Can highly recommend other A9home users do this for same
> reason.

I have newer try to boot via ShareFS. I have copy all the stuff from old
HDD to SSD via the second intenal a9home IDE port. Was not a problem.

Regards

Raik

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