compactflash cards dying in < hour?
Hi!
I had three diferent CF cards, from two different manufacturers (Apacer and Transcend), and both died *really fast*.
Last one (transcend) died in less than 10 minutes: mke2fs, cat /dev/urandom > foo; md5sum foo (few times); cat /dev/urandom > foo and I could no longer do cat /dev/urandom because of disk errors.
I know CompactFlash cards are *crap*, but they should not be *so* crappy...?! [I'm testing them from toshiba satellite 4030cdt via Apacer PCMCIA-to-CF adapter and in sharp zaurus].
Are there "known good" 256MB compact flash cards?
Pavel
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We have some SanDisk CF's here which have withstood at least 20 cycles of fdisk, mke3fs, and installation of a mini-linux distribution. They are all still running ok. (64 MB mostly, some 128 MB)
They have been accessed through SanDisk USB-to-CF adapters, and also directly to the IDE channel of Geode-based embedded systems.
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Hi!
I had three diferent CF cards, from two different manufacturers (Apacer and Transcend), and both died *really fast*.
Last one (transcend) died in less than 10 minutes: mke2fs, cat
/dev/urandom> foo; md5sum foo (few times); cat/dev/urandom> foo and I could no longer do cat/dev/urandombecause of disk errors.I know CompactFlash cards are *crap*, but they should not be *so* crappy...?! [I'm testing them from toshiba satellite 4030cdt via Apacer PCMCIA-to-CF adapter and in sharp zaurus].
Are there "known good" 256MB compact flash cards?
Pavel