Re: Compact Flash memory test

From the photo on ebay, they look to be Sandisk.

http://tinyurl.com/d9up8f

They have not arrived yet, but the machine I will be testing them on I
just added an Ubuntu partition to, so I do not have to do any testing
in Windoze.

Mike


>-svfw /dev/flashdevice will perform a butteryfly test with 4
> passes, which aught to be way more than efficient to notify you of a failing
> flash volume.

>This is good advice. I would add that any test that proves a rotating
>hard drive is good will prove that a flash "drive" is good.

>There simply is not a method accessible by a standard customer to
>determine if the flash in a flash drive is close to bad. Some of the
>new SATA or PATA hard drive replacements support S.M.A.R.T. that can
>inform you of potential problems. But even current Compact Flash cards
>do not support such commands.

>A 128MB card is most likely a few years old. Manufacturer differences
>can matter a lot back then. What brand, model, etc. are the cards you
>bought?

>Alan
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