SV: SV: Repeater - defect flash card?

["Per Boysen" <boye@chello.se>]

 > Per Boysen (02:43 AM 09.15.2001) wrote:
>
>  >Good to hear your flash card is ok. Appearently I got a defect
> card. Now I'm
>  >wondering how  common that is - and how trustable these flash cards 
>are?
>
> Hey Per!
>
> Well, at work we spend a lot of time with flash cards and handle them
> pretty roughly ("Hey Bob! Catch! Slam that into your board and grab the
> first two files..."). I don't think that we've had a failure yet.
>
> But, we have had cards that were bad from the minute we opened
> the package...
>
> I'm curious... can you play the demo loops off of the card? Do you have a
> reader for your computer and if so, can you read/write files to the card?
>
> Mark
>

No, I cannot play anything from the card. Repeater says "BAD FORMAT" and
asks me to format the card. When I try to it says "FORMAT FAIL". It's a 16
mb card marked "Electrix".

Per