Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:46:25 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: SD/MMC cards: how crappy they are? |
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> Pavel Machek wrote: > >>> > >> I have seen flash cards die permanently from having a partition table it > >> didn't like written to it. Yes, the microcontroller on the flash card > >> tried to interpret the partition table, assumed to be MS-DOS style, and > >> would crash. > > > > Aha... that explains why I killed few flashcards by tar xzvf /dev/sdX files > > ... hopefully thats fixed in the better/bigger cards now. > > > > Also had a batch of cards which would silently "correct" the partition > table for you to align the partitions to its flash erase blocks.
Can you mention the manufacturer/model? Silendt data corruption is a nasty thing.... -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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