On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:32:37AM +0100, Michael Schnell wrote: > If the spec is "100,000 rewrites" this would mean with an FAT format the > card could be dead after writing 100.000 * 512 Bytes, as the FAT > supposedly lies in a single block and can get updated with each block > written. > > Than means after writing some 50 MByte you are out of luck. > > I don't suppose anybody will sell such a thing.
I have seen reports of some cheap cards that did die within a few uses when used on distributions that defaulted to mount with the sync option for fat filesystem cards. So yes such cards do exist. As long as you use them in a camare that writes fairly large files, and only updates the FAT when it is done writing the image, then you will probably never break the card. Using it with linux and the sync mount option means updating the fat every time you write one block of data. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ uClinux-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by [email protected] To unsubscribe see: http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev
