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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next prev 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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