[bookport] Re: POSSIBLE FILESYSTEM HANDLING BUG IN BOOKPORT F IRMWARE 2.X?
- From: "Walt Smith" <ka3agm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:04:20 -0400
There is absolutely no way to determine the point at which a CF card may
fail. I've had one card that failed after about three or four months of use.
On the other hand, I had cards that withstood extremely heavy repeated use
that never failed. No electromechanical device can ever be said to be
absolutely fail-safe.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gosselin, Louis" <LGosselin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 9:02 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: POSSIBLE FILESYSTEM HANDLING BUG IN BOOKPORT F
IRMWARE 2.X?
I'm shocked. I thought, after reading the Library of Congress's endorsement
of flashcard technology, that their usefulness and durability was virtually
limitless. Can someone clue me in? Is there an expected life expectancy
for flashcards? Is there an expected number of times one may be re-written
before it fails? Do you know how many times that is--roughly, of course?
Louis Gosselin
-----Original Message-----
From: buhrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:buhrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 3:17 PM
To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookport] Re: POSSIBLE FILESYSTEM HANDLING BUG IN BOOKPORT
FIRMWARE 2.X?
That's a good point, but in my case, the flash card is less than a
month old, so I hardly think I've used the cycle count up. -Brian On Sep 13,
3:03pm, Chris Hill wrote: } Subject: [bookport] Re: POSSIBLE FILESYSTEM
HANDLING BUG IN BOOKPORT FIRMW } Could be a bug with bookport. It could
also be that since flash } doesn't last forever and the directory area is
going to get used the } hardest, that's where the errors will show up. I
have one card that } won't just error out constantly, it'll just do it now
and then. }
}
}
>-- End of excerpt from Chris Hill
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