[OT] Testing an SD card
Volker Wysk
post at volker-wysk.de
Wed Aug 17 16:42:33 UTC 2016
Am Mittwoch, 17. August 2016, 17:26:45 CEST schrieb Colin Law:
> On 17 August 2016 at 16:31, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> > I have an SD card for my smartphone which I suspect to be defect. Is there
> > a command to test this? (I can copy it with dd to a file, so far it
> > works.)
> If you suspect it to be faulty (which presumably means it has done
> something odd) then just chuck it and get a new one. Even if it
> appears to be ok then if it has failed in some way once then it will
> fail again. Get a good make, it is false economy to get cheap ones. I
> generally use Sandisk.
Yes, you're right. I'll get a new one. Thanks for the Sandisk hint.
Volker
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