[iPAQ] File system for a 256MB SD Card

I'm not getting any response from the Windows CE community so hoping that
someone here may know something about this. An article on slashdot recently
mentioned that using FAT file systems with SD cards can lead to sudden death
due to the constant writes made to the first bunch of sectors for the
allocation table, effectively wearing out only a few critical sectors while
leaving the rest of the card ok. Does anyone know if this is a real
concern. I can understand why it is, but I don't know if there is some
sector translation (vitualisation) going on or something else to make this
problem irrelevant. I'm really interested in using it with Windows CE on
the iPAQ H5450. It's a Sandisk card if that makes any difference.

Regards,

Steven
Received on Thu Feb 20 2003 - 11:11:33 EST