BrentDC | # 1 | 2008-06-27, 02:41 | Report

I recently purchased a Transcend 8GB SDHC card, and it arrived about 4 days ago. That day I cloned the OS to it and installed KDE -- everything seemed to be working perfectly with the card. Today I was using my N800 booted from the card with the cloned OS (not KDE), and out of nowhere a reboot. When bootmenu came up it showed MMC1 as N/A and didn't allow me to boot to the card. I booted to flash and neither the File Manager or Control Panel show that there was even a card inserted at all. The N800 didn't recognize it. Now here is the problem: I do not have access to a SDHC compatible card reader so I can't try to format it with Windows. Is there anything I can do on the device to try to format it? Via the Terminal? Thanks for any help.

OSEmuTech | # 2 | 2008-06-27, 02:50 | Report

I have 2 dead Transcend 8GB SDHC cards and have tried formatting them using a USB reader and a myriad of software tools in Windows, Mac, Linux, and also Maemo. Neither of them have been recoverable.

On one of the cards, I was enjoying using KDE when all of sudden it locked up and after a couple seconds my N800 rebooted. Once it got to the Boot Menu it did not show my cloned partition as being bootable and the card was not even seen by Maemo.

Just wanted to warn you that after spending hours trying to recover your card, it might not be worth the time trying. Transcend cards have a warranty, but I haven't gotten around to requesting replacements.

http://www.transcendusa.com/Support/...=2&Func2No=137

bunanson | # 3 | 2008-06-27, 02:58 | Report

Same here. It usually has a prodromal sign. It happens on the "bootmenu n/a" maybe once right after cloning. It was fine for a couple of days, and it gets more frequent. And finally it die and no system can recognize it, not PC, nor USB cable, nor the tablet. It was patriot 8 G SD card. OSEmuTech is probably correct, it does not worth the time, just return it.

bun

BrentDC | # 4 | 2008-06-27, 03:24 | Report

Thanks for the responses. I definitely see your points about not wasting to much time, but I do want to try a little something.

Just now I entered in X-Term "cd /media/mmc1/bin/" and it cd'ed to it, but "ls" does nothing. If I just new how to format a card with X-Term, I think this could work...I hope.

OSEmuTech | # 5 | 2008-06-27, 04:57 | Report

This post may be of some use to you. I was asking for assistance with the 1st Transcend 8GB that failed on me. Stupid me bought 2 more Transcend 8GB cards and one of them failed a few days later. I'm surprised the 3rd one is still OK, though I've been waiting for it to fail.

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=16546

bunanson | # 6 | 2008-06-27, 05:00 | Report

If you can cd to it, there is hope. Try USB cable, someone has done it, it will show up at your PC like a removable drive, you can then format the card via your PC using the tablet as a SD reader. Another point, you can get an USB reader SDHC from dealextreme.com for under $3 shipped. I got one and it worked. Problems is it took a long time, something like 3 wks for it to ship.


bun

BrentDC | # 7 | 2008-06-27, 15:07 | Report

I tried mounting it via USB to my computer, but it acted like the card didn't exist, either. When trying to format, it just said "Insert a drive in slot G:". I think this one is dead, so I sent it back to Amazon and asked for a refund. Oh, and I bought a Kingston Transcend, what rubbish (I've owned a 2GB SanDisk for a year and a half, and I can't tell you how many times it "should've" corrupted, but never has. Transcend? It took all of three days...).

Edit: How could I forget, thanks for the help bun and OSEmu!

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p900 | # 8 | 2008-06-28, 17:39 | Report

This is a very big problem. Out there, people (mostly chinese) produce imitations of memory cards, memory sticks The same stands for USB stick dongles, MP3 players with 4/8gb etc

Don't be foolish thinking you got a "CHEAP 4GB / 8GB / 16GB / 32GB" deal, in fact you were paying for a "VERY EXPENSIVE 1GB / 2GB" hacked sticks. The sellers are laughing their way to the bank!
Kinston doesn't always mean kingston and transcend doesn't always mean transcend.

You should be very careful what you are buying and from whom you buy.

brento | # 9 | 2008-06-29, 12:51 | Report

I've been looking at getting the 8gb transcend card from amazon too. With all these bad experiences should I stay far away? Does anyone have any good working transcend cards?

Thanks.

BrentDC | # 10 | 2008-06-29, 15:33 | Report

Personally, I'd stay away. This is the Kingston 8GB Class 6 card I purchased:

http://www.buy.com/prod/kingston-8gb...204333366.html

I can't tell you how I like it, because it hasn't arrived yet, but it is almost as cheap as the Transcends.