From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SD/MMC cards: how crappy they are?
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:32:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081204103206.GD22396@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4935778E.1020405@zytor.com>
On Tue 2008-12-02 09:59:42, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Theodore Tso wrote:
> >
> > If this is your random eject out from your HP laptop problem, note
> > that random ejects while the card is writing can cause corruption of
> > the flash translation layer (FTL), which for some really crappy cards,
> > can permanently damage them; hopefully most of those are gone from the
> > market, but I wouldn't be positive about that. The better ones will
> > have some kind of journalling scheme for their FTL...
> >
>
> I have seen flash cards die permanently from having a partition table it
> didn't like written to it. Yes, the microcontroller on the flash card
> tried to interpret the partition table, assumed to be MS-DOS style, and
> would crash.
Aha... that explains why I killed few flashcards by tar xzvf /dev/sdX files
... hopefully thats fixed in the better/bigger cards now.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-04 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-02 14:48 SD/MMC cards: how crappy they are? Pavel Machek
2008-12-02 16:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-02 16:56 ` Theodore Tso
2008-12-02 17:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-04 10:32 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-12-04 19:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-26 21:46 ` Pavel Machek
2008-12-26 21:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-26 22:39 ` Pavel Machek
2008-12-27 1:03 ` Ben Pfaff
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