Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 Feb 2003 13:34:33 +1300 | From | Andrew McGregor <> | Subject | Re: Compactflash cards dying? |
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--On Tuesday, February 04, 2003 00:56:00 +0100 Roger Larsson <roger.larsson@skelleftea.mail.telia.com> wrote:
> 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)
Maybe your system is feeding it the wrong supply voltage?
> >> >> Anyone seen something similar? Are there some known-good >> compactflash-es? >> > > I would recomend SanDisk
Seconded, they're generally really good.
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