Re: life of CF card

Thomas Isenbarger wrote:
> Can anyone point me to an article or give me information about the
> life time of compact flash cards?  After all the work I am putting
> into setting up NetBSD on my Mobilepro 790, I don't want to lose it! 
> How do folks out there deal with the prospect of cards going bad?
>
> I have a Powerbook with a PC card slot and an appropriate adapter for
> my CF card.  Does anyone have a good solution for backing up a CF card
> using a Mac, for instance, writing the contents of the CF card to a
> file on my Powerbook in some way?
>
> Thanks,
> isen
>
I was wondering the same thing, as I am setting up my z50 on this 2gb
sandisk I just bought.
How long can I expect to use it, and are there certain thing to set read
only that will lengthen the life of the card?

thanks,

Nick

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