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JET
10th of May 2005 (Tue), 21:57
Can anyone help. I remember reading an official post on the net by a flash card manufacturer of the risk of damaging a CF card if you run your camera battery flat. Since I had a mysterious failure of my Sandisk Ultra 512MB some time ago (and was replaced under warranty) I now wonder whether this was the reason. The card frequently gave and error when saving images (reformatting did not help). I cannot find anything on the Sandisk site about this issue nor others. Does anyone know where I might find more info on this. Thanks. JET, New Zealand.
Citizensmith
10th of May 2005 (Tue), 23:29
If power dies while saving/transferring a file you will end up with a corrupted image. However, being solid state CF Cards do not need power to maintain their memory. Low battery power would not be an issue.
pierrot
11th of May 2005 (Wed), 06:34
Couldn't have said it better
the.digital.guy
11th of May 2005 (Wed), 16:00
If power dies while saving/transferring a file you will end up with a corrupted image. However, being solid state CF Cards do not need power to maintain their memory. Low battery power would not be an issue.

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