Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:03:15 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | 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.
-hpa
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