Thanks for this. Presumably this applies to all flash cards that have heavy
usage? thankfully I know the history of this card (used for about a day
before I got my sticky mits on it) so I should be OK, although I feel a
backup coming on...
Cheers
Matthew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Benschop" <robertbenschop@bigfoot.com>
To: "NewtonTalk" <newtontalk@planetnewton.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: NTLK Excited!!!
> on 01-02-2000 11:12, Matthew Robinson at matthew@crescent.org.uk wrote:
>
> > I can confirm that 20M flash cards work. Mine is 'borrowed' from one our
> > Cisco's at work and works a treat. I've almost finished filling it with
> > useful(less) bits and bats!
>
> Matthew, I don't want to spoil your fun but in the past a lot of faulty
> cards for the Newton were around that came from Cisco Routers.
> Due to the massive amount of read/write cycles that these cards experience
> in a Router (much more than you'll probably ever manage in a Newton) they
> tend to go bad.
> The way to check is by filling up your card to the brim, if it can't hold
> all the data at some point or starts returning errors it's faulty.
> BTW, people use Newtons with 32 MB cards in them without a problem.
>
> regards,
>
>
> Robert Benschop
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