Re: Flash Memory problems

Ken Wallich <wallich@ncd.com>

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From: Ken Wallich <wallich@ncd.com>
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Subject: Re: Flash Memory problems 
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>If the card hang's the best thing to do is pop the free button, pull the
>card, allowing the Zoomer to settle back down (or reset), then reinsert the
>card.
>The comm between the Zoomer and the Flash-card was interrupted. 

Did all of that to no avail.  Left it out for 10 minutes in fact, got
the same errors when any access was attempted.  

Also, if I tried to access the hosed card, then when it failed, tried
to remove it, I got the dialog box that said "the card you removed is
in use, reinsert it".  If I then reinserted it, the Zoomer locked up,
and I had to reboot.

I've also yanked the card, put it back in, deleted things, and added
them, all with no problems.  In general, it works pretty well.  What I
did that caused the failure was to hit one of the 'launcher' icons
when it was deleting mega stuff from the card.  I didn't yank the card
while the delete was in progress (well, after waiting several minutes
for the file it was working on to be deleted, I finally rebooted, but
at that point it was pretty obvious the machine was frozen), but I
didn't yank the card until it was obvious the card was toast.

Now, I don't expect this stuff to be solid as a rock.  I expect some
problems, and this seems like a good place to share them so people in
the proper places have something to try to reproduce.  Perhaps this
was a once in a lifetime failure, and it'll never happen again.  I've
tried to reproduce it, and it swaps applications just dandy, no
lockups, no corruption.