Thread: Fix for Class 10 microSD cards
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2011-05-18 , 20:14
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#52
Originally Posted by Estel View Post
On side line, just to clarify things - vi_, you're successful with getting the module to work at all, but did it do the trick with microSD class 10 for You? Or you never had problems, but wanted it to be used ''correct way'' by kernel, just to be on safe side?

I ask, cause I'm highly interested in buying class10 microSD card, BUT if there is no 100% sure solution to get it working in N900, i would rather wait - every 3 months make them (class10, not N900) lost big portion of price, so no much sense in buying and place it in drawer
I have had problems with this card before. To the extent that I have broken 1*16GB LX Patriot card. It simply crapped out 1 day, taking my whole n900 with it...my backup was on the card.

In that case I had swap mounted on the SD card. I suspect it did threw up the 'cannot read' error detailed in the first post, effectively ripping the swap out which caused the device to insta-death cutting power from the card. This killed it.

More recently the replacement card started vomiting the same errors and actually required to be hooked up to a 'dows box the get it going again. That was the stimulus to trying this patched module again.

The n900 had JUST been reflashed and I was in the process of loading all my appz when I tried. It succeeded. So, I used this module because my card, an 'LX Patriot' class 10 16GB was displaying the same error as detailed in the first post. All seems stable so far (1 week).

Don't get too carried away with the numbers, there are some sandisk class 8 cards that easily perform in the same league as this 'class 10'. You just have to go look up various reviews and benchmarking sites.
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