Dear Readers,

There is some clever program in a flash card to extend its life-time.
Does anyone know of a (free) program that can check the 'health' of a
CompactFlash card?

Tia, Jean.

Haven't heard of such a thing Jean. But there are flash devices you can
obtain that have wear leveling built into the firmware to really extend its
life.
-andy
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"Jean Pion" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Dear Readers,
>
> There is some clever program in a flash card to extend its life-time.
> Does anyone know of a (free) program that can check the 'health' of a
> CompactFlash card?
>
> Tia, Jean.
>
>

Well I've sent a mail to SanDisk about this, and they said such a tool
exists but they don't sell it and I should search on the inteternet...

Since they *have* wear leveling it should be posible to "see" the health of
the card, like with smart on an ide disk.

Jean.

"Andy Allred [MS]" <(E-Mail Removed)> schreef in bericht
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Haven't heard of such a thing Jean. But there are flash devices you can
> obtain that have wear leveling built into the firmware to really extend
> its life.
> -andy
> --
> Embedded team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/embedded/
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
>
>
>
> "Jean Pion" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:%233%23Xkb$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Dear Readers,
>>
>> There is some clever program in a flash card to extend its life-time.
>> Does anyone know of a (free) program that can check the 'health' of a
>> CompactFlash card?
>>
>> Tia, Jean.
>>
>>
>
>

Jean,

Even if SanDisk has such a tool it is likely going to work only with Sandisk cards and bound tightly with their firmware.

--
KM,
BSquare Corp.
www.bsquare.com


> Well I've sent a mail to SanDisk about this, and they said such a tool exists but they don't sell it and I should search on the
> inteternet...
>
> Since they *have* wear leveling it should be posible to "see" the health of the card, like with smart on an ide disk.
>
> Jean.
>
> "Andy Allred [MS]" <(E-Mail Removed)> schreef in bericht news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Haven't heard of such a thing Jean. But there are flash devices you can obtain that have wear leveling built into the firmware to
>> really extend its life.
>> -andy
>> --
>> Embedded team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/embedded/
>>
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Jean Pion" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:%233%23Xkb$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> Dear Readers,
>>>
>>> There is some clever program in a flash card to extend its life-time.
>>> Does anyone know of a (free) program that can check the 'health' of a
>>> CompactFlash card?
>>>
>>> Tia, Jean.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Dear KM,

You are probably right; but it could be that there would be some set of
standard parameters and a set of brand specific parameters.

Jean.

"KM" <konstmor@nospam_yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Jean,
>
> Even if SanDisk has such a tool it is likely going to work only with
> Sandisk cards and bound tightly with their firmware.
>
> --
> KM,
> BSquare Corp.
> www.bsquare.com
>
>
>> Well I've sent a mail to SanDisk about this, and they said such a tool
>> exists but they don't sell it and I should search on the inteternet...
>>
>> Since they *have* wear leveling it should be posible to "see" the health
>> of the card, like with smart on an ide disk.
>>
>> Jean.
>>
>> "Andy Allred [MS]" <(E-Mail Removed)> schreef in bericht
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> Haven't heard of such a thing Jean. But there are flash devices you can
>>> obtain that have wear leveling built into the firmware to really extend
>>> its life.
>>> -andy
>>> --
>>> Embedded team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/embedded/
>>>
>>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>>> rights.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Jean Pion" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>> news:%233%23Xkb$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>> Dear Readers,
>>>>
>>>> There is some clever program in a flash card to extend its life-time.
>>>> Does anyone know of a (free) program that can check the 'health' of a
>>>> CompactFlash card?
>>>>
>>>> Tia, Jean.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>