[atlas] Replacing flash key

I did the experiment, and it was successful: probe appeared 8 minutes 
after booting with a new flash key. I'd say we need more statistics, but 
sometimes it works.

--

With Best Regards,
Marat Khalili

On 19/05/16 17:47, Boris Fersing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was asking because I had a similar issue recently. If I remember 
> correctly, I inserted the USB key before starting the probe, and after 
> few minutes I checked the USB key again and it was partitioned with 3 
> 1GB partitions.
>
> I might also be wrong, because I was playing around with the USB key, 
> but I think it's worth a try.
>
> Regards,
> Boris
>
> May 19 2016 10:11 AM, "Marat Khalili" <mkh at rqc.ru 
> <mailto:%22Marat%20Khalili%22%20%3Cmkh at rqc.ru%3E>> wrote:
>
>     Hello Boris,
>
>     Do not remember exactly, but most likely I did reboot probe with
>     the new key inserted at least once. In any case, I can do this
>     test if you have some specific reasons to believe it will change
>     something.
>     --
>
>     With Best Regards,
>     Marat Khalili
>     On 19/05/16 17:05, Boris Fersing wrote:
>>     Hi Marat,
>>
>>     You said you inserted the USB key 10 minutes after the probe
>>     boot. Have you tried to start the probe with the key already
>>     inserted?
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>     Boris
>>
>>     May 19 2016 9:53 AM, "Marat Khalili" <mkh at rqc.ru
>>     <mailto:mkh at rqc.ru>> wrote:
>>
>>         My V3 probe (26656) disconnected yesterday, simple reboots
>>         didn't help. Suspecting problem with USB key I first tried to
>>         replace it with a new one. I took bog standard Transcend
>>         JetFlash 350 8Gb right out of the wrapping and inserted it
>>         into a started probe 10 minutes after boot. Did not format
>>         the flash key or alter it in any way, because someone
>>         previously said that it is not necessary. Unfortunately,
>>         probe did not come up, and the flash key seems unchanged
>>         after approximately 1 hour wait. What should I do to switch
>>         to a new flash key? Also, did someone tried connecting
>>         HDDs/SSDs, shouldn't they work better?
>>
>>         (Probe did appear after I inserted previously used flash key
>>         into it, but I suspect problem will re-occur in the future,
>>         so I'd like to know a way to fix it more permanently.)
>>
>>         --
>>
>>         With Best Regards,
>>         Marat Khalili
>>

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