Re: [OCLUG-Tech] SD card

2012-01-21 Thread Rick Leir
The big difference between MMC and SD is that the latter has DRM support. It sounds as if that Wikipedia article could use some improvements. Who is up to it? Thanks -- Rick On 21/01/2012 11:19 AM, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > Flash needs bad-block remapping, block refresh, and write levelling. > I

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] SD card

2012-01-21 Thread Spencer Cheng
On Jan 21, 2012, at 11:19, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > Flash needs bad-block remapping, block refresh, and write levelling. In the > case of a USB attached flash storage these functions clearly get done in > the USB device... in some sort of "processor" or ASIC. > There is definitely intelligence

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Deleted folder

2012-01-21 Thread Greg
If you mount the partition readonly, it is probably safe. Not mounting at all is safer. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man8/e2undel.8.html http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man8/debugfs.8.html Check your own manpages. It is not

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] SD card

2012-01-21 Thread Bart Trojanowski
Flash needs bad-block remapping, block refresh, and write levelling. In the case of a USB attached flash storage these functions clearly get done in the USB device... in some sort of "processor" or ASIC. I always thought that MMC/SD devices worked the same. Are you saying that a SD card does this

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Deleted folder

2012-01-21 Thread Raj
'photorec' recovers deleted files - not sure about deleted folders but you can give it a try I would recommend you stop using the disk until you have managed to at least try recovery - the more you use it, the lesser the chances of recovering deleted files successfully. --Raj. On Thu, Jan 19, 2