Cards designed and/or private labeled for routers are fine, as long as their
use in router has been little to none.
Linear Flash has a life defined in read-write cycles. Each "cell"
(analogous to a track/sector) has a lifetime of 100,000 cycles.
Unfortunately, if even one cell goes bad, the card, for use in a Newton, is
hosed. The Newton has no way to map "bad cells" out, although PC and some
router format programs for flash cards can. (the Newton cannot use these
mappings - different format)
Cards used in a router for any length of time, particularly in busy routers,
can have this cycle lifetime used up in anywhere between 15 minutes and a
year or two. The same card, *never* used in a router, has a theoretical
lifetime of 5-20 years in a Newton.
Users on this list have bought cards previously used in routers, and they
immediately went bad or were DOA. Hence the warning. Caveat Emptor!
Regards,
Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net
[mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net]On Behalf Of Mitchell Vice
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 1:19 PM
To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
Subject: Re: [NTLK] "Router" Cards??? Was: BTI batteries
What's wrong with "router" cards? I've had a 20MB Cisco for over 3
years and it's been flawless. Anything I should know about?
::mitch::
>> "John Goggan" <jgoggan_at_dcg.com> wrote:
>> Also -- I may have a lead on a quanitity of 32MB PCMCIA FlashRAM cards.
>
>If the cards are known to have *NOT* been used in a router (sorry if my
>English construct is bad), then I would say that $45 is a fair price. I
paid
>$39 for mine on eBay a few weeks ago.
>
>-Laurent.
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