I guess as these devices age we should begin to expect minor issues to crop up. Mine was that the Class 2 (I think it is the original) card would unmount when I tried to copy "too many" megabytes to it. Sometimes too many was 15 and sometimes it was 50MB, but it never failed to unmount.
I use Itunes Agent to load up the card with about 200MB a day of podcasts. First the program deletes some of the old ones and that worked fine, then it copies in new ones and that is where it would bomb. Maybe one or two podcasts would copy in fine, then I would lose contact with the card. The yellow droid would go to green and that was it. Only unplugging and replugging and mounting would work and often after that, the program would complete the file copying with no more troubles. I changed the USB cord, made sure I was using the latest drivers, etc. but nothing improved. So I tried Samba.
Connecting to the card over the network was slow and unreliable. And, once again, I could copy some MB, bit not "too many" else it disconnected.
I poked around the 'net and came to the conclusion that maybe the card was going bad. Didn't seem right to me because all the apps that were on the card worked fine. A little slow to start up after a boot, but nothing outrageous.
Before I bought a new card, though, I decided to try an old trick. I removed the card and used a a microfiber cloth on the contacts. Back in the olden days, I used to use a pencil eraser on ISA, PCI and RAM card contacts, but I haven't needed to use that trick in a long time.
It worked, but I am saving my pennies for a new SD card anyway. It's been my experience that often this "fix" is only temporary.
I use Itunes Agent to load up the card with about 200MB a day of podcasts. First the program deletes some of the old ones and that worked fine, then it copies in new ones and that is where it would bomb. Maybe one or two podcasts would copy in fine, then I would lose contact with the card. The yellow droid would go to green and that was it. Only unplugging and replugging and mounting would work and often after that, the program would complete the file copying with no more troubles. I changed the USB cord, made sure I was using the latest drivers, etc. but nothing improved. So I tried Samba.
Connecting to the card over the network was slow and unreliable. And, once again, I could copy some MB, bit not "too many" else it disconnected.
I poked around the 'net and came to the conclusion that maybe the card was going bad. Didn't seem right to me because all the apps that were on the card worked fine. A little slow to start up after a boot, but nothing outrageous.
Before I bought a new card, though, I decided to try an old trick. I removed the card and used a a microfiber cloth on the contacts. Back in the olden days, I used to use a pencil eraser on ISA, PCI and RAM card contacts, but I haven't needed to use that trick in a long time.
It worked, but I am saving my pennies for a new SD card anyway. It's been my experience that often this "fix" is only temporary.
