Richard Miller <[email protected]> writes: > After a bit less than a year, the SD card suffered a catastrophic > failure. When I say catastrophic, I mean I can't find any meaningful > data anywhere in the first 120MB or so of /dev/sdM0/data ... just > not-quite-random looking garbage.
Could have been just the normal "SD card used up" situation. They don't last forever, and to get a reasonable life time you have to a) not buy too cheap, and b) not write to it more than you have to. Under Unix, point b means mounting with noatime and nodiratime options. Some specifics here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_leveling -tih -- It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. -Richard Feynman
