>This is just a general question to all you Compact Flash users. I'm using
>Compact Flash as part of an embedded solution and was wondering how your
>experiences are with the life of your Compact Flash? Currently I'm using a
We use mostly SandDisk and SST here for our systems. From my
expereince so far it seems that the CF is very fragile when it comes
to power fluctuations during a write. With the SST being the more
fragile of the 2. During developement of a new system we usually end
up killing 1 or 2 CFs. The most common problem for us is corruption
of the partition table. Once corrupted neither linux or windows
wants to recognize the CF.
I spoke with a Sandisk CF engineer about the issue and he told me
that if power goes south during a write then bad things happen. He
also mentioned that if I could get a low level utility that would
blank the CF with zeros then it should be recoverable.
So far I haven't found any good utility for DOS, windows, or Linux
that A) works and B) Isn't cripple ware with that feature disabled.
I welcome any suggestions for software to try.
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Richard A. Smith Bitworks, Inc.
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Sr. Design Engineer http://www.bitworks.com
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