[IAEP] [support-gang] SD Card Expert Needed

[Kevin Gordon]

Talk to Mikus.  He is my muse on this stuff.

KG

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi All....
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> I'm looking for an SD card expert... not just theoretical, but someone who
> has actually done what I want to be able to do.
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> I am re-locating 10 XO-1 laptops from a CP project that has stalled to a
> K-8 school in rural Montana.  They have some very enthusiastic teachers who
> really want to do all sorts of neat things with the XOs and tell us about
> them, plus their principal is very supportive of the project.
>
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> Because they will be using the laptops for elementary music  and middle
> school science, along with lots of other things... they could really use
> more than 1 GB memory.
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> What I was hoping to do is use an SD card (2GB to 4GB) as auxiliary
> memory.  I would like to be able to add science Activities like Star Chart
> and Constellation Flash Cards on the SD card, have them stay there, and the
> journal entries for those Activities stay there too.
>
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> I tried it today on an XO-1 running 11.2.0 (os874) and it seemed to be
> working fine... until... I ejected and removed the SD card to see what was
> going on and the Activities (still on the card) were also on the XO!  Not
> what I am looking for!  I don't want them to "live" on the XO, I want them
> to "live" on the SD card only. The card won't need to be removed... that was
> just to test where the Activities were.
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> Students will probably be asked to save their work on usb drives too...
> that is really up to the teachers, but I will strongly suggest it.
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> So... who has experience with this?  Can it be done?
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>
> Caryl (aka GrannieB)
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