Date   : Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:56:40 +0100
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Help! [ot]

Alex Taylor wrote:

> to avoid hammering individual parts of the flash memory, I've heard it
> said that cheap cards only do this for the area usually occupied by
> the FAT when formatted as such,

Oooh! Now that's a bit of an evil hack! Still, I guess better than 
nothing for the masses.


 > so running an ext4 filesystem may well kill it in short order.

We're up to ext4? :-)


> conditions, but I think they should technically be able to cope with
> years of thrashing.

My thinking exactly. I've an 800Mb drive that coped with Win95 OSR2 in a 
16Mb system. The thing thrashed constantly.


> failed with a SMART error at bootup), but as soon as I put the Maxtor
> ones on (later 6K040L0 models), I'm finding problems with bad sectors.

I'd better note that model number!


Best wishes,

Rick.

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