On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:11:47AM -0500, Nick Cummings wrote: > Yes, I wondered about that. I've scrutinized both cards several times and > I can find no physical switches or toggles of any kind (though curiously > both bearthe word lock OR locked). I found an imagine online of a card > like mine (same brand size and appearance) with such a switch, but that > switch is absent on my card. I figured that locking may also be able to > be set by software.
How much have you used this card? It used to be very important to mount flash devices "noatime" since they have a limited number of writes, and every ls on a filesystem mounted "atime" logs the access time - that is, writes to the flash. The number of writes used to be in the thousands, if not tens of thousands, but that can be burned through pretty quickly. Nowadays, I hear that the number is hundreds of thousands, but I don't know for sure. So, if your flash is old enough that you could have done an ls one thousand times on a directory of one hundred files, it might just be bad. But check it on another system, too. Ben -- Ben Stern UNIX & Networks Monkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] This post does not represent FTI, even if I claim it does. Neener neener. UM Linux Users' Group Electromagnetic Networks Microbrew Software
