Heebie, did you copy that post to Bugzilla?

Yeah, that's the first thing I thought of Tex, and I'm probably going to do it in the morning. But my cooler head is definitely not prevailing right now. I know that only the facts are valuable to the engineers, and at the moment I don't trust myself to not post something rash along with it.

Just one question to all the people in this thread who lost cards. Did anybody ever had problems with cards in the INTERNAL slot? I get the feeling that it's only the external slot that gives problems.
If this can be confirmed, then we could just use an 8Gb card in the internal slot and not use the external one. Thus giving ourselves a little bit more time before to leave the IT and jump on the Windows Mobile or Asus Eee wagon.

Ton.

Nokia has stated that the memory card slots in N800 have slightly different voltage regulation so it's possible that, depending on the memory card, the slots could behave slightly differently. I suppose the best interim result would be to ascertain which make to put in each slot.

My own opinion is that this is a ridiculous situation which has been going on for far too long. As with all things N800, Nokia needs to devote more resources to it. But then maybe this, too, is a deliberate decision. It all makes perfect sense when explained, don’t you know?

Toontje i've lost all of my 3 cards in internal slot :x

So i'll wait with buying a new SD card.

BTW, let's speculate. What if Nokia finds out that it's a hardware design problem.
- Will they recognize that publicly?
- If they do, will they take back the problem devices and replace them with new ones?

Does anyone have any ideas on this one?

Ton.

If it's hardware, card corruption should occur with every firmware. Do we know of instances of this?

Karl, mine work fine, the only time I see issues is when large amounts of data are being written. For example untarring 200-300mb file, when in those high IO situations, I see reboots and data coruption about 50% of the time. When I am not dumping large tar files my cards seem to work fine.

Its a firmware problem, that needs to be addressed by Nokia!!! I am just running fsck on boot everytime on my mounted partition

I don't think that your problem is related to the card corruption bug! Your device reboots (probably) because of a watchdog reset (e.g. too high cpu usage)... In this case the data couldn't be synced to the card and your filesystem corrupts. Did you try to transfer large files (700mb) via USB or WLAN (or generated data with diskdump)?
My device never rebooted (or was unresponsive), when my cards got corrupted (3 8GB SDHC Class 6 Transcend cards, external slot)!

@Toontje:
There are several reports of card corruption in internal slot... but the external slot seems to be more affected.

if the issue was every firmware being at fault, why did the previous firmware with fanoush's patch not kill any of my cards? as far as i have read on this forum, the dead card issue occurred when people flashed with the current, skype enabled firmware.