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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, tytso@mit.edu
Subject: Re: SD/MMC cards: how crappy they are?
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:30:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <493562A5.40308@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081202144830.GB1549@ucw.cz>

Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> ...maybe it was because of powerfail? I'll try to run badblocks to
> recover it...
> 
> ...I did. Badblocks did not help, but cat /dev/zero > /dev/mmc1
> did.. And yes, thosse 'temporarily bad blocks' seem very much
> powerfail related.
> 

Power failures can, indeed, do nasty things to SD/MMC cards, especially
power rail sag in the middle of writes.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-02 16:31 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 [this message]
2008-12-02 16:56   ` Theodore Tso
2008-12-02 17:59     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-12-04 10:32       ` Pavel Machek
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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