Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: compactflash cards dying in < hour? | From | Torrey Hoffman <> | Date | 08 Jul 2003 14:34:16 -0700 |
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We have some SanDisk CF's here which have withstood at least 20 cycles of fdisk, mke3fs, and installation of a mini-linux distribution. They are all still running ok. (64 MB mostly, some 128 MB)
They have been accessed through SanDisk USB-to-CF adapters, and also directly to the IDE channel of Geode-based embedded systems.
Torrey Hoffman torrey.hoffman@myrio.com (work) - thoffman@arnor.net (home)
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 13:49, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > I had three diferent CF cards, from two different manufacturers > (Apacer and Transcend), and both died *really fast*. > > Last one (transcend) died in less than 10 minutes: mke2fs, cat > /dev/urandom > foo; md5sum foo (few times); cat /dev/urandom > foo and > I could no longer do cat /dev/urandom because of disk errors. > > I know CompactFlash cards are *crap*, but they should not be *so* > crappy...?! [I'm testing them from toshiba satellite 4030cdt via > Apacer PCMCIA-to-CF adapter and in sharp zaurus]. > > Are there "known good" 256MB compact flash cards? > > Pavel
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