Re: Sync option destroys flash!

Michael H. Warfield
2005-05-13T19:01:10Z

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On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 14:26 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 02:21:23PM -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > Funny you should mention SanDisk. Maybe the newer ones have gotten
> > better but the CF cards I used in my PDA were mixes of the SanDisk 128
> > Meg and SimpleTech 128 Meg. Burned up several before I realized it was
> > the nightly backup program that was eating them and I didn't notice any
> > difference between the brands. I don't know what controller was in the
> > SimpleTech CF cards. Any way to tell short of dismantling them?

> Not really. I believe sandisk has wear leveling on the 201 series CF
> cards and on their new generation CF/SD for sure they have it (and
> unfortunately for us they discontinued industrial temperature in the new
> line so we have had to look elsewhere for CF cards).

Par for the course...

> Unfortunately a lot of what is sold to consumers at retail is cheap
> crap. :)

You won't get any argument from me there!

> Len Sorensen

Latest things I've just started playing with are these "Intelligent
Sticks" or "I Sticks". They look like a chip, similar in form factor to
the memory sticks, but slide into the open half of a USB jack, even
though the contact pads wouldn't look like a good match. No connector
shell, so they're really flat. I wonder just how "Intelligent" they
are. I'm bet'n that wear leveling ain't part of it. But they are cute
chips that fit in a wallet easily and can boot a fully encrypted laptop.
Once working, they'll almost never need rewriting to any large extent.
The 1G chips can hold a complete OS like Knoppix or Basilisk (the 512Meg
chips too, with a lot of squeezing).

Mike
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