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    SubjectRe: Compactflash cards dying?
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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

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    Roger Larsson
    Skellefteå
    Sweden

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