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From: Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Compactflash cards dying?
Date: 03 Feb 2003 01:36:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1044232591.545.8.camel@sonja> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030202223009.GA344@elf.ucw.cz>

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Am Son, 2003-02-02 um 23.30 schrieb Pavel Machek:

> 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.

> Anyone seen something similar? Are there some known-good
> compactflash-es?

CF has limited write cycles. A few hundred if you're lucky.
And depending on the type of flash it's quite likely that every
changed byte will result in a whole block being written back.

I'm running dotzends of CF cards and due to some care not a single
one has developped bad blocks as of yet.

-- 
Servus,
       Daniel

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-03  0:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-02 22:30 Compactflash cards dying? Pavel Machek
2003-02-02 23:57 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-02-03 12:53   ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-03  0:36 ` Daniel Egger [this message]
2003-02-03  2:04   ` Martin K. Petersen
2003-02-03  8:39     ` Jörn Engel
2003-02-03 13:58       ` Martin K. Petersen
2003-02-03  8:50   ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-02-03  7:12 ` Bryan Andersen
2003-02-03 14:08   ` Martin K. Petersen
2003-02-03 14:10     ` Padraig
2003-02-03 14:30       ` John Bradford
2003-02-03 14:25     ` John Bradford
2003-02-03 21:18       ` Bryan Andersen
2003-02-04 20:59       ` Bill Davidsen
2003-02-04 21:07         ` John Bradford
2003-02-03  7:30 ` Andreas Jellinghaus
2003-02-03 12:54   ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-03 23:12     ` David Woodhouse
2003-02-04  3:39       ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-02-04 11:24       ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-04 11:30         ` David Woodhouse
2003-02-04 19:28           ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-03 23:56 ` Roger Larsson
2003-02-04  0:10   ` David Woodhouse
2003-02-04 23:28     ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-04  0:34   ` Andrew McGregor
2003-02-04 23:27   ` Pavel Machek

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