On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 10:18:38PM +0800, Ling SM wrote:
> >>Old camera was a Minolta 7Hi "prosumer" 5 MP. Very nice camera. Now 
> >>dead after 200,000+ photos.
> 
> How many insertion have the card cycled through?  Do you think it is the 
> interconnect, contact-wear, or weaken solder joints at the connectors.

For reference I got a free, dead, USB key from the print shop at my
school. It had been cycled so many times that the connector even felt
loose. One touch of the soldering iron to the connector leads and it was
working perfectly again.

It had probably been plugged and unplugged dozens of times a day for
about 2 or 3 years.

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