Hi Arnd, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 24 May 2011 19:11:48 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > a maddeningly vague question -- i'm currently after more information > > -- but i've been told about an issue where someone is recording video > > to an SD card and, after 12 hours, the units begin to "fail." that's > > all the info i have at the moment, i hope to get more so i don't even > > know what the definition of "fail" is here, or the brands or models or > > vendors involved, only what you read above. > > > > has anyone run across something like this before? again, i realize > > this is annoyingly vague but if i had a hint as to what might be going > > on, i might be able to offer some advice. what could possibly cause > > properly recording SD cards to start misbehaving after several hours? > > thanks for any wildly speculative guesses. > > There are many reasons why this could happen: > > * You used a Kingston (or other cheap) SD card with a file system other > than FAT32 > I'm just curious. How could this thing (file system type) affect read/write operations? Could you explain it a little? Thanks, Patrick -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html