typoinmyname

hey tk,
I am happy you are very fine.
read you,
typo

Which kind of idiot 'designed' 4 checkboxes without an alternative each that all have to be checked? What's the purpose of this mess? Anyone awake here?
 
 

link didnt work.... but hey I'm glad to see you, wonderin where youve been

That is of course the first question I asked myself. Nevertheless, the card was purchased at a reliable supplier and anyway there is no way at my disposal to check that.
 
The fact is that I have over 30 years experience in system but was not prepared to face such a stupid problem : hardware pretending doing the job but not doing anything. I suspected the image, the fs options and the card reader before the card itself when I noticed that files created on fs disappeared after unmount/remount !
 
Anyway, I will now check /etc/os-release after flashing a card ...

That's the reason I switched over to Etcher completely: Since here a verify is mandatory which will save you huge amounts of time (the SD reader in my build host PC died a few months ago, took me 2 days to get the idea, in between an USB card reader was responsible for several failure burns so now I simply rely on Etcher and my MacBook's internal card reader -- also way faster).
 
Maybe you got a counterfeit card and already exceeded the real capacity (you described the typical symptoms). Did you run F3 or H2testw already?

We don't provide binaries so you need to build from sources. RT patches are present (and tested) in our patch set:
 
https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/tree/master/patch/kernel/sun8i-default
 
but they are disabled. All you need to do is to remove .disabled and recompile kernel.