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<font size="-1">Wire "deterioration" usually comes from flexing them
too many times.<br>
We all have a tendency to tie our peripherals' wires into knots
whenever we<br>
store them or prepare to travel with them. <br>
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Michael B. Trausch wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 17:24 -0400, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Thanks for the tip. Turns out the card reader appears to have
died. Tried another reader and things worked.
Live and learn.
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Something else that I have learned recently---USB wires deteriorate over
time and can be the cause of very strange errors. I have had a couple
of wires that I have had to replace and then the peripheral attached to
them begins to work again. I have pretty much gotten used to the idea
that mysterious USB errors == try new cable or port, and if that doesn't
work, then maybe the device is dead.
--- Mike
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