[Wylug-discuss] compact flash cards used as IDE disk....

[Steve King]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Jim Jackson wrote:

> So if you use CFcards for cameras, they are good for fully filling with
> images 1000 times? Interesting I hadn't realised it was as low as that,
> worth remembering. Definitely needs to used as a readonly boot device
> then.

I think that's all they are guranteed for.  My smartmedia (ok, not
identical, but similar) camera has already worn out one SM card,
although it had been used in my rio before, so I guess about 3 years of
use in total. It chose the most annoying place to die on me too, darned
thing!

Steve