[PLUG] Re: Free Tablet Computers To Good (or Bad) Homes

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Fri Jun 25 17:51:02 UTC 2004


Andy Davidson <pheon at hevanet.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 02:46:40PM -0700, Galen Seitz wrote:
> > 
> > I would appreciate it if you would post the brand names.  I'm working on
> > a project where the filesystem will be in CF.  I'd like to avoid this
> > problem by purchasing a known-to-work brand.
> 
> Good idea.  It would be nice if there were a place to keep this info.
> [Maybe there is and I just haven't found it.]
> 
> The one I could format as an ext2 system was a 32MB from "Simple
> Technology".  The one I absolutely could not format as ext2 was a "POI
> FlashCard" which is what they sell at Fry's; it remained a vfat. The
> third is a 128MB SanDisk, which worked once, then didn't; it failed
> whenever I saw a message in the log that said "hdc: hdc: lost
> interrupt", so I may have a flaky unit there.
> 

I just ordered two SanDisk 256 MB CF cards from Newegg.  One is
conventional, and the other is the new and improved 'Ultra II' version. 
I'll try to let you know about how well they work.

galen





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