Andreas Ferrari wrote:
>> Its VERY unlikely that software will kill a flash card. No one has
>> ever reported this to happen. 
> now I did...
>
>> Theoretically if m0n0 went into an
>> infinite loop and started writing to the card the card could be
>> killed. Cards should die after being written to 100,000 times or so.
> no that does not happend...
>>
>> The card is probably defective.
> a brand new card used the first time?? now I had test it with 3 BiWin 
> cards and all of them have the same problem or there is a problem with 
> M0n0wall.
>
I've had that problem with low-end, poor quality flash cards, usb flash 
memory disks, and SD Cards. 1 in a batch of 10 will work right off the 
box (the others are DOA), and then fail miserably hours into its first 
use. Since then I've stuck to name brands only.

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