Re: Compactflash cards dying?

From: Andreas Jellinghaus (aj@dungeon.inka.de)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2003 - 02:30:28 EST


> I had compactflash from Apacer (256MB), and it started corrupting data
> in few months, eventually becoming useless and being given back for
> repair. They gave me another one and it is just starting to corrupt
> data.

last year we had some problems with compactflash. It was only 7bit
clean, not 8bit. However the cards worked fine via usb devices,
but not when used as IDE device.

test if writing 7bit data is reliable :-)

Andreas

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