Problem with SD Card Back Up

poli74

I recently bought an ASIair and I am having trouble backing up my ASIair SD Card. I am following the instructions in the Manual I downloaded for Windows. I have Windows 10 and I am using Win32 Disk Imager 1.0.

I have attempted to Read and I always get the following error message “An error occurred when attempting to read data from handle. Error 1117: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. I have used all four drives and get the same error. I am using the latest user guide for the ASIair.

I have successfully Read the SD card using Apple Pi Baker on my MAC but had issues writing/restoring to my back up SD card as there are known issues with the new MAC Catalina operating system as I have read articles on the Developer’s forum. So my SD card is not corrupted. I haven’t formatted the card when prompted by Windows after card insertion.

Any help to solve issue would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

w7ay

> I have successfully Read the SD card using Apple Pi Baker on my MAC but had issues writing/restoring to my back up

> SD card as there are known issues with the new MAC Catalina operating system as I have read articles on the Developer’s forum.

Have you tried v2 of the ApplePi-Baker application?

According to the ApplePi-Baker documentation, you also need to give Full Disk Access to ApplePi-Baker (read a little down in the following page).

https://www.tweaking4all.com/software/macosx-software/applepi-baker-v2/

I have used v2, but on MacOS El Capitan and High Sierra, which do not have the strong security of MacOS Catalina. The above page might be of help to you, however.

v2 also allows ext4 partitions of the SD card to be moved and expanded on a larger 64 GB SD card. That, however, does not give you more than 25 GB of image data since the Image folder is in the main FAT partition of ASIAIR.

Chen

poli74

Hi Chen,

I am using the newer version v2 as recommended on their website and have given it Full Disk Access.

Thanks for your help anyway.

Emanuel.

w7ay

I assume you are already using ApplePiBaker v2.2? (Released early November specifically for Catalina problems.)

If v2.2 still does not let you write to an SD card, have you tried running AppleBakerPi as superuser? Some Balena Etcher users found that Etcher only works in Catalina when they run it as superuser (similar to "run as administrator" in Windows).

I.e., launch Terminal.app (in /Applications/Utilities/) and, assuming ApplePiBaker.app is in your /Application folder, type this (or cut and paste the following line) to Terminal.app's prompt, followed by a carriage return:

sudo /Applications/ApplePiBaker.app/Contents/MacOS/ApplePiBaker

Terminal will ask for the root password, which is your password if you are the owner of your Mac.

"sudo" in Unix basically says "execute the following as superuser" and ApplePiBaker.app/Contents/MacOS/ApplePiBaker is the executable binary (the actual program code) that is contained in the ApplePiBaker.app application bundle. All applications on MacOS X are special folders called an "application bundle."

After giving your password, the above should launch the ApplePi-Baker application and display the usual ApplePi-Baker main window.

Please be very sure that the ApplePiBaker application really was downloaded from tweaking4All.com since running as superuser gives the application all sorts of permissions that can expose your computer to any nefarious stuff in the program.

Chen

poli74

Hi Chen,

Thank you for your very detailed advice and tips. I have managed to get a backup SD card done using my Windows machine, I used Win 32 Disk Imager Ver 1.0. It worked as I checked the backup disk.

Have a good week.

Regards Emanuel.