D70 fellows, just found an interesting thread about CF card

[birddog114]

Good to check and make sure your CF card is right prior to insert.
Hey, it's again Sandisk Ultra II
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read. ... e=11085693

[Greg B]

Wow, that's scary. You would think that even the most basic quality control would have spotted that. Not good.

[birddog114]

That's QC job, but who's the qualified QC?

[atencati]

if he truly did buy a ScanDisk (not SanDisk) card as written he is probably screwed. It sounds like a knockoff. Maybe he can go to the store where he bought it, if the are reputable.

hmmmmmmmmmm

-A

[birddog114]

Hey, it's Sandisk, perhaps his typo, and not only one problems from him, it seems to me that other had this problem also.

[sirhc55]

There is a problem on all forums with the written word - I would assume that he did mean Sandisk but he might not be letting on that he inserted the card the wrong way round and tried to force it in. This would most certainly not be good for the contacts.

Cheers

Chris

[gstark]

Chris,

If he did that, he'd be getting more damage to the camera and/or CF card before he even inserted the card far enough to cause damage to the contacts.

There are guideways along the card edges that help prevent incorrectly oriented insertion, and he'd be impacting those in the first instance.

[birddog114]

Chris,
What I read on that thread, he insert in the right direction same as others but the CF male sockets damaged the row of pin of his D70, if you insert the card in with the wrong direction then:
1/ hard to push it in.
2/ Once it's in by force, you can't get the CF card out and had to use the plier with the point to pull the CF out with force.
3/ some CF cards might have the slider not well correctly allignment, therefore when you insert it the row of holes did not get in straight and bent the pin. Same as insert the CPU into the socket of the maninboard.
4/ I have a customer (Govt. Dept) rang me last week about their camera did not register any available space on the CF, after 5 minutes, I found out they inserted the CF card wrong way and can't remove it, it's now in Maxwell workshop. Big bills to come