On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:07:31PM +0200, Eero Tamminen wrote: > ext Marius Gedminas wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:15:19AM +0200, Eero Tamminen wrote: > >>If you want to use larger memory cards, please make sure that your > >>N800 contains the latest release. Earlier releases could corrupt > >> >= 2GB cards: > >> http://maemo.org/news/announcements/view/1191328183.html > > > >Hm, was that bug only for >= 2GB cards? I had a 512MB SD card die > >completely in my N800's external slot. > > Interesting. Of <2GB cards, I had heard of only one 1GB card dying and > that was with a very early internal Chinook kernel version so it could > have been also something else besides bug 1024 (like broken test > kernel or otherwise broken card). My card was this one: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1204#c37 (I always misread the bug number as 1024 too ;-) > The bug wasn't related to card size per se, it was related to how much > power the card requires from the MMC port, what it does after it has > acknowledged receiving the data written to it and how it reacts if > it gets less power while not being used. It's just that the larger > cards in general use more power (and are more fragile?), but that > differs a *lot* between different cards/models of even same size. As long as it wasn't a matter of SD versus SDHC, I can hope that the card-killer bug is gone. Marius Gedminas -- MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development. -- dmeggins at aix1.uottawa.ca -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20071101/9ad173e4/attachment.pgp
