I've had the card for a while, but it really hasn't been written to too
many times. Also, running out of writes would cause a write-protected
flag would it? Wouldn't it just cause I/O errors when writes failed?
Nick
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
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