From: Rod Whitworth (glistenwitworx.com)
Date: Thu Mar 23 2006 - 02:38:00 CST

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On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:33:54 -0600, John Heim wrote:

>> Many years ago the technology was way inferior to what we have now.
>> Think of all the digital cameras that seem to last forever with people
>> snapping everything
>> because there is no cost of film
>Yikes! I'd better go tell my wife that what I told her yesterday is wrong.

I did not say they will never wear out. People treat them as though that was true. I have
seen some data that says millions of rewrites are possible.

>>
>> Now to get you going. How about trying to use dd to blank the CF before
>> giving up on it?
>>
>> dd if=/dev/zero of= (whatever your CF appears as) bs=2048

>After I posted, I tried that too. But it gave me the same error messages as
>fdisk. I went to bed before it finished generating error messages. So I
>don't know what will happen if I now try fdisk again. But I am not hopeful.

>My wife's camera has a CF chip about the size of a thumbnail. The one in my
>soekris is quite abit larger -- like an inch square. So I'm worried that I
>might buy the wrong thing. Would the CF drive at the URL below work?

>http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820160013

Well I haven't used the brand you see there but it is a Compact Flash device. Your wife's
camera obviously uses a different device. Broadly speaking the tech is much the same but
cameras use devices more compact than Compact Flash sometimes. If that pun is visible to
your reader (grin). There are types like SD (my camera has one) and others are one-brand
types. You need Compact Flash for Soekris. I use Apacer Photo-Steno II with success.

>If so, I'd like to take back that thing I said about it being a lot of
>money. I think I can afford to throw ~$20 at the problem.

I pay about $AUD80 for the 100x speed Apacers that I use and this week that is about
$US56, so you are getting off lightly but it may not be as fast. Probably fast enough.

I have one handling a 2 megabit link plus a 512 k backup and it does it easily.

>My poorr, long suffering wife will have to deal with the rebate application
>though. :-)

>PS: Your message worked fine with my screen reader.

Good! and good luck.
Rod/
No need for CC directly, thanks.

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