Your eM@il from chrup@earthlink.net on 1/8/00 11:43 PM said this:
>
>This is the second incident I have seen that there is something flaky
>with these 'cheap' cards - and it worries me a bit, since I have just
>bought 3 of them.
>Can anybody shed some light on this? Are these cards not supposed to
>be used like what we are doing with them? Could it be that they don't
>like being written to, too often? (Ok, these are wild speculations,
>but then, computing is an exact science, right ** Grin ** :).
>
>Best regards
>Chris
>
Some of those "new" cards are actually cards that were once used in
routers. Routers suck the life from flash cards, and make them give you
errors.
NEVER buy a used card from someone who cannot prove that it's history was
router free.
-Oz
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