Re: problem accessing a specific CF Card (Compact Flash) in 8-bit TrueIDE mode

From: "Grumps" <grumpsnothere@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 07:31:44 -0000

alyc wrote:
> "Rufus V. Smith" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:43c6dbe8$0$30406$6d36acad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

<snip>

> What I've also found out is that you can 'kill' a CF card by writing
> to it's lower sectors. Well 'killed' is perhaps a bit OTT as you can
> still use it in a CF reader and via the logger library I've
> developed. But insert it into a camera and it can't initialise it,
> format it, nothing.

I'd like to know more about what parts of the CF you write to in order to
cause these problems. And what cameras you have experience of that are
unable to re-format.

.

References:
- problem accessing a specific CF Card (Compact Flash) in 8-bit TrueIDE mode
  - From: Rufus V. Smith
- Re: problem accessing a specific CF Card (Compact Flash) in 8-bit TrueIDE mode
  - From: alyc

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