On 9/19/20 8:26 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
The bottom line here is that I ALWAYS test my 'portable storage devices' beforehand. I do not want to find out they were failures or 'not as advertised' AFTER I've used them to take unrepeatable photographs.
This card was used fine for 4-5 years, and as mentioned, it is just used to monitor the foxes and coyotes in the backyard to minimize the number of cats we are feeding them. (kids seem to get upset when fluffy goes missing) So data isn't critical (except from the cat's perspective...) Lots of great pictures over the years. It's just like the filesytem evaporated. Lightning nearby? There are power lines withing 30 ft or so, so a close lightning strike could produce one hell of a magnetic field while it is running to ground. (or it was just a crappy SD card that came with a predetermined TITSUP date. 5 more ordered for $14. That should get us though the cats remaining lifetimes. ddrescue log is blank all the way through: # Mapfile. Created by GNU ddrescue version 1.25 # Command line: ddrescue --reopen-on-error --min-read-rate=400k /dev/sde trailcam.img trailcam.map # Start time: 2020-09-19 03:07:32 # Current time: 2020-09-19 04:31:57 # Copying non-tried blocks... Pass 5 (forwards) # current_pos current_status current_pass 0x00120000 ? 5 # pos size status 0x00000000 0x00120000 * 0x00120000 0x00050000 ? 0x00170000 0x00020000 * 0x00190000 0x00170000 ? 0x00300000 0x00020000 * 0x00320000 0x002F0000 ? 0x00610000 0x00020000 * 0x00630000 0x005F0000 ? 0x00C20000 0x00020000 * 0x00C40000 0x00BF0000 ? <snip more of same to end> -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org