At 04:56 PM 5/14/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>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.

The CF connectors look to be a *lot* more fragile than USB connectors. I've
had one fail already (just on a reader, thank goodness).

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