From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760678AbYEMRNw (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 13:13:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754812AbYEMRNm (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 13:13:42 -0400 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120]:43525 "EHLO cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753714AbYEMRNm (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2008 13:13:42 -0400 Message-ID: <008e01c8b51c$ae840ae0$6401a8c0@techwriter> From: "Yigal Sadgat" To: "Alan Cox" , , , , Cc: , , , , , , , References: <005b01c8afc4$77f4ec90$6401a8c0@techwriter> <20080506230954.6e034cba@core> Subject: Re: Compact Flash Question Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 10:13:35 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org First, thank you to all that responded. My original thought was that perhaps we're experiencing "soft errors". We shipped several thousands of systems and a very small number of them (3 to 4 units) are showing this problem. I'm still waiting for these systems to come back to us... Meanwhile I found out that although we (Engineering) specified "SanDisk ONLY" (only because they do wear leveling), our purchasing bought from other manufacturers as well (Toshiba, Crucial, Kingstone). Crucial is absolutely the LEAST reliable CF (system down!) and furthermore, their "lifetime warranty" is a joke. Regards, Yigal Sadgat