how to test bad sector for microdrive? Plan to buy 2nd hand but don't know if it is a wise choice.
IBM 1GB.
IBM 1GB.
Belle&Sebastain said:i dun own a microdrive but my 1gb CF card had a badsector around the 50% mark.
i think you can only find bad sectors if you fire away and use the card to its full storage. if you are 'struck', cannot record, errors and so on then i think its a bad sector.
my CF card presented these problems consistently for 3 times all around the 50% mark even after format and full formating, its has been replaced since.
DeusExMachina said:CF cards do not have "sectors" like hard disk drives and microdrives, they are made up of memory chips.
DeusExMachina said:CF cards do not have "sectors" like hard disk drives and microdrives, they are made up of memory chips.
Kho King said:how to test bad sector for microdrive? Plan to buy 2nd hand but don't know if it is a wise choice.
IBM 1GB.
imaginary_number said:CF cards DO have "sectors". In a hard disk drive, a sector is a portion of a track - in a solid state drive, the storage space is also divided into sectors (typically 512 bytes each).
Belle&Sebastain said:so that is where is goes wrong
imaginary_number said:Btw, how long did your CF last before the bad sector issue came up? Was it mishandled often?
Belle&Sebastain said:i bought it since oct last year.
sometimes my card will have error 99 displayed if i do continuous shoot in highest jpeg.
also a problem happens if i format the card in 10D and i shoot it with D30. after reviewing a few times all images will be corrupted. now i keep seperate cards for either camera.
never mishanded anything before really expect my powerbook freak accident that left a 'scar' on my lcd screen.
imaginary_number said:Hmm... the accident must have damaged the card I suppose? 'coz it's not often that I hear of CFs having bad sectors.