Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote:

>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.

I have had the same problems with cheap cards (although I was able to 
rewrite the m0n0 image to them).  I have also gone to SanDisk Ultra cards 
since then and have experienced no issues.


Aaron