Messages in this thread | | | From | Roger Larsson <> | Subject | Re: Compactflash cards dying? | Date | Tue, 4 Feb 2003 00:56:00 +0100 |
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On Sunday 02 February 2003 23:30, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > I had compactflash from Apacer (256MB), and it started corrupting data > in few months, eventually becoming useless and being given back for > repair. They gave me another one and it is just starting to corrupt > data. > > First time I repartitioned it; now I only did mke2fs, and data > corruption can be seen by something as simple as > > cat /mnt/cf/mp3/* > /mnt/cf/delme; md5sum /mnt/cf/delme. > > [Fails 1 in 5 tries].
That is very bad... I wonder if you do something that the CF does not like - like power off while writing (can actually destroy the disk - read in some newsgroup)
> > Anyone seen something similar? Are there some known-good > compactflash-es? >
I would recomend SanDisk
/RogerL
-- Roger Larsson Skellefteå Sweden
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