NTLK Router cards

From: Gruendel, Frank 3837 PPE-WT (Frank.Gruendel@de.heidelberg.com)
Date: Fri Feb 04 2000 - 13:54:29 EST


>Due to the massive amount of read/write cycles that these cards experience
>in a Router (much more than you'll probably ever manage in a Newton) they
>tend to go bad.

>Thanks for this. Presumably this applies to all flash cards that have heavy
>usage?

I had three of the cisco cards. I used one of them for about half a year
when it started to make problems although there was not much more than
3 MB on it.
Fortunately, Paul agreed to replace them (a kind of customer service
unknown in Germany) after that long a time without questions asked).

Actually the real replacement process was a bit of a hassle and I guess
the fact that I now have my money back was mostly due to Gary's tireless
nagging them. But I think this was only partially Paul's fault.

However, if you find a card that has been used in a router: Leave it alone.
It cost me on day's worth of notetaking, and I considered myself lucky
that it wasn't more.

Frank
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