20 Mar
2005
20 Mar
'05
1:51 p.m.
From: "Eric Smith" <eric at brouhaha.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 3:00 PM
Jay wrote:
To my knowledge (which may be wrong) is that the reads are unlimited, it is
the erasing that causes problems.
Using the drive as a worm device should be perfect for it.
CF cards are 5v tolerant devices and may be sensitive to over-voltage, if
you are running it at 5v a current limiting resistor might be a good idea.
Randy
www.s100-manuals.com
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