My DS and "Sandisk Ultra II" SD cards - incompatible somehow?

[P. J. Alling]

I'm using Ultra II 2 gig cards in my DS and so far I've had no problems 
with them.

Charles Robinson wrote:
> I thought I had a bum card, which I've started the RMA process on.  In  
> the interim I bought ANOTHER Sandisk UltraII (different store,  
> different style of card so it's not the same "batch" of cards) and I'm  
> getting the same annoying behavior.
>
> When I'm at a concert, I'll be shooting in bursts of 3-5 exposures at  
> a time.  After the burst there is a preview of the last image shot.
>
> Sometimes, for no good reason, it will freeze on that last image - and  
> the "write" light will stay on.  Finally, after half a minute or more,  
> I'll see a message "image was not saved" and if I'm lucky the camera  
> powers down but sometimes it just freezes until I (no, really!) pop  
> open the SD door or pop open the battery compartment to "reset" the  
> camera.
>
> Sometimes after doing this very very rash maneuver, I'll regain  
> control of the camera and can continue to use the card.  But sometimes  
> I'll get "card error" and then that card is done for the night.
>
> I've two different ultraII cards I was attempting to use last night  
> and each behaved in the same way after about 100 exposures.  I put in  
> my "Kingmax 60x" card from my Treo so I'd have something for the rest  
> of the evening.... and I managed 380 shots without a single error.
>
> So here's the $64,000 question:
>
> Does anyone here use Sandisk UltraII 1gig cards in their DS?  If so,  
> have you ever had any problems with them?
>
> I've already gotten an RMA generated for one of the cards, so even  
> though I don't think it will help much, I'm sending it in for a  
> replacement.
>
> It doesn't make sense that they'd both be bad cards.  But it also  
> doesn't make sense that there is a compatibility issue.  So I'm still  
> trying to figure out what the hell is going on.  Formatting them on  
> the Mac, I can fill them, copy to/from, all day without issue.  But  
> the DS also works beautifully with "anyone else's" SD cards so it's  
> not really clear to me what's broken or how to proceed.
>
> Ideas, anyone?
>
>   -Charles
>
> --
> Charles Robinson - charlesr at visi.com
> Minneapolis, MN
> http://charles.robinsontwins.org
>
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