From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Fri Feb 13 2004 - 19:45:17 PST
on 13/02/04 22:24, James Nichols at smilr_at_mac.com wrote:
> Only have the one card - and it was FINE until a mail V crashed on
> me... really think a format won't fix it?
>
> On Feb 13, 2004, at 8:29 PM, Woody Smith wrote:
>
>> Sounds like a bad card. Try another card and move data and packages to
>> new card.
>> Woody
>> On Friday, February 13, 2004, at 08:13 PM, James Nichols wrote:
>>
>>> My linear flash card is going flaky (only mounts 1 in 10 times I try,
>>> other times my mp2100 asks If I want to reformat it), and I want to
>>> back up my DATA - appointements, todos, quotes, notes, etc, everything
>>> BUT the actual packages themselves - but NCU and NBU demand a full
>>> backup on the first try - so I can't deselect the packages from the
>>> backup process until AFTER one full backup - which I can't get.
A format might fix it, but I thought you wanted to back it up first? One
thing you could do, if you have enough space on the internal store, or if
you can make additional space, would be to transfer all the soups storage
from the card onto the internal memory and then backup. Then, try
reformatting the card, but it might have reached the end of its useful life.
As you may or may not know, flash RAM cards have a number or read/write
cycles. Once you reach that number, then the card may turn bad at any time.
Although the number is fairly large (like 100,000 cycles), cards that have
been used in some Cisco routers may have been worn out by the router. So,
all of this to say that you might not be able to recover the card even if
you format it...
-Laurent.
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