Does PiPLAY set SD card to read only and has anyone had issues with SanDisk Ultra PLUS SD cards?

tdmame

Hi, I've been using PiPLAY for well over a year and (gasp) lost my portable HD which had my Piplay SD card in its case. So I purchased a new SanDisk Ultra PLUS 16GB SD card thinking that would be a quality card, installed and got everything running with no issue. One day I unplugged it while it was running and I got some file system issues upon reboot. I ran fsck and it cleaned things up and it seemed fine after. Next time I went to shut it off I did a shutdown from the menu then unplugged it. I rebooted and had file system issues again. So my questions are: 1) is piplay setup for read-only and if not should there be any issue if I create a ram drive and set it for ready only and 2) has anyone had issue with the SanDisk Ultra PLUS SD cards? I saw a post from one other guy who had issues with this card but that could have been a fluke since it was just 1 other person. Thanks!

mholgatem

@tdmame - well, we'll find out. I just ordered the exact same card yesterday. I should have it later today or tomorrow.

tdmame

Thanks for the comment. Do you know if PiPlay runs in read only mode? If not, I am thinking I should set it to so I can protect against random bad writes to the card, especially considering my application will be in a dedicated cabinet with a hard power off for everything

mholgatem

no idea, never tried it. For the most part, Piplay just reads, but there are certain writes that it does to the databases (changing settings/adding games to favorites) also it writes to the emulator config files when using controller config.

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