Re: defect sdhc card slot?
 

The external slot has corrupted my regular SD 2GB sandisk card. I have a transcend 4GB regular SD in the internal slot and am waiting delivery of a transcend 8GB SDHC card.

Question: Should I risk any card in the external slot ?

Re: defect sdhc card slot?
 

Is your SD card completely damaged or is only the filesystem corrupted?
If you have less problems with your internal slot, I would use this slot for the new SDHC ;)
Until now only my SDHC cards were damaged in the external slot ... My old
SD cards are still alive.
No risk, no fun :D

Re: defect sdhc card slot?
 

I think the best option is to wait until we hear back from Nokia - probably via bug #1204 - and hopefully within the next few days when they get back in the office.

Unfortunately Nokia made the mistake of staying silent about the touchscreen sensitivity issues leading many of us to go through the unecessary pain of repair when a software solution was available. With luck Nokia won't make that mistake again and will come clean about the SDHC card killing problem.

What I'm wondering is this - does Nokia they have a responsibility to replace all our dead cards if they cannot be revived?

Re: defect sdhc card slot?
 

Yes, but Panasonic formatter doesn't seem to help either.

At least in my case this is not related to the latest firmware only since I've managed to corrupt my SD's with the latest two firmware's (the only two I've used).
This has happened to cards on the external slot, so far no problems with the internal slot.

Re: defect sdhc card slot?
 

My problems started with N800 firmware 2.2007. But the SD cards were never dead. "Just" the filesystem was corrupted. But I had no luck with the SDHC cards. I had the hope that official SDHC support would solve my problems, but that was just a dream of mine.

Perhaps your dealer will exchange the defect card. I don't think that Nokia
will pay for our cards.

Re: defect sdhc card slot?
 

I have only used the internal slot and experienced this problem several times...

Re: defect sdhc card slot?
 

My problem started with the card being seen by the n800 as read only.
Rebooting / reseating sometimes cleared that. I also reformatted the
card. Eventually the card stopped working, wouldn't read, can't reformat.

I cannot reformat on XP, I can reformat on n800, except it doesn't do it
correctly. On XP, the newly formatted card says it holds 1.5gb, but is
empty. Yup, the card is well done for.