20 Mar
2005
20 Mar
'05
1 p.m.
Jay wrote:
It wasn't a swap partition I created in flash. It
was an OS
install partition (to install the OS FROM, not to). I was learning the
intricacies of "label & newfs" at the time, and had quite a few attempts
in a short interval but the lexar drive died. This happened again to a
second one in short order.
Strange. I've done a lot of that sort of thing on Sandisk CF and SD
cards with no trouble. And I have used a 2GB Sandisk CF as a swap
partition on a laptop for more than nine months with no observed ill
effects.
Then again, maybe I just had two bad devices in a row.
Possible, but seems unlikely. I'm not sure how else to explain it
though. Overwriting an entire partition in a CF multiple times to
do installations *from* shouldn't cause any significant wear.
Eric