>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 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
