craigcurry

I got a SanDisk 256mb through Dell. What a piece of trash. It would not sync programs, it would not load files. I formatted the card in FAT16, FAT32, and every cluster size I could get my hands on. It would not work! The faults where all repeatable. Who ever are at fault here should step up and fix this mess. Even a 5% failure rate is unacceptable!

Craig

ephex double

128 MS SuckDisk was a horror story prior to ROM update (A03). Is this a real solution..........................

Anyone.... Anyone....Beuller

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Dell Axim X5 (the Big Daddy)
128 Sandisk SD
258 Kingston CF
Linksys WCF12

Darius

I got a SanDisk 256mb through Dell about a week ago. It shows "Total storage card memory: 241.13MB" - not what I expected.

I can't do a data backup of it.

I noticed that when I create folders on the SD card through my desktop PC and move files into them, the files disappear (do not cut and paste files like that!) Got around that by creating the folders on the Axim first.

Yesterday I took minutes at a meeting and stored the Word file on the SD card. Today, that entire folder is empty.

I tried a series of soft-resets with and without the card, but no luck. Finally, the Axim hard-reset (don't know how it did that, don't think I made it do it).

Don't have any problems with being asked to reformat the card.

Intend to return the card and try a different vendor.

sdhenderson

I had similar problems with my disappearing files on my Sandisk early on due to the card not being formatted with a "My Documents" folder. Try formatting it using "Flash Format" w/FAT32, and "create a My Documents Folder".

Manually copy your SD Card contents to a folder on your PC frequently as your card may crap out on you again. (Mine did)

There is a lot more info on this site about SD cards, I was suprised to see a recent post in this thread more recent info is available.

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The perfect mix of Auburn Tiger Fan and Gulf Coast Margarita Drinker.... War Pelican!

happycheesecake

I have a website on the SD card issue...

http://freespace.virgin.net/jon.crawford/

peterbright

Have had no problems SanDisk SD or CF cards in camewras or my Ax. Also have Kingston CF cards and have no problem with them either.

JakeRich

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Originally posted by Darius I got a SanDisk 256mb through Dell about a week ago. It shows "Total storage card memory: 241.13MB" - not what I expected.

That's a definition problem. The card manufacturers define a megabyte as 1000 X 1000 bytes, or 1,000,000. Microsoft defines a megabyte as 1024 X 1024, or 1,048,576. The 48,576 X 256 = 11,949,696. So, 256 - 12 = 242, which is close to what the Axim reports. I haven't had a card yet where the Axim reports what's printed on the card.

Osiris

I got a SanDisk 256mb card with my Axim and lost my data about a half dozen times. I tried formatting it ten ways to sunday, with different options, etc. Nothing worked, and the card still had data loss on a daily basis.

I will never touch another SanDisk card again.

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Osiris

Axim X50
1 GB SD card
Deluo GPS

alfa 156

just bought a Panasonic card from a website, after a terrible week with a sandisk card which i will surely sent back.. Will i be ok with my new panasonic card?

happycheesecake

Never heard of a problem with Panasonic SD cards :)

alfa 156

Quote:

Originally posted by happycheesecake Never heard of a problem with Panasonic SD cards :)

good news.....

Astounded EEG

simpletech SD is clean too

happycheesecake

Quote:

Originally posted by Astounded EEG simpletech SD is clean too

Hey, at least it wasn't me plugging SimpleTech this time Astounded!!! :D

Current (28/06/2003) info:

Panasonic 128,256,512mb works fine.
SimpleTech 128,256 works fine (no info about 512mb yet)

SimpleTech appear to have changed there supplier of SD cards - the code on the back of the card has changed format. I've emailed and asked them about it. SimpleTech are good at replying, and I've not seen a problem with them yet.

This ends the news, over to Astounded for the weather... :p

Astounded EEG

Thanks, Jon, well we have a new storm warning to report for the US atlantic seaboard, tropical storm Sandisk has recently been upgraded to a full-blown hurricane with gusts of up to 500 bad SD cards an hour...

..yeah...

happycheesecake

Thanks Astounded, on the sports desk today in Europe the UEFA cup scores:

Sandisk 2, Happycheesecake 16
Astounded 3, Dell 1
Lexar 2, Rollie 0