Play safe with Lexar 3rd edition CF

[ThomasD]

I extracted a foot note from Rob Galbraith website:

Lexar began shipping their 80X line of cards in June 2004. The card marked first edition is representative of the 80X lineup that began shipping at that time. In October 2004, Lexar began to ship a revised version of their 80X cards with improved performance; we've dubbed this 80X variant second edition. If the last four characters of the edge stamp on the card are A4B6 or 9171, it's a second edition 80X CompactFlash card. To solve an incompatibility with 80X second edition cards and certain Canon cameras, Lexar updated the controller in its 80X line in June 2005. Those revised-controller 80X cards we've dubbed third edition and, as of this writing, the last four characters of the edge stamp of this 80X version are 2D97. In our testing, 80X second edition and 80X third edition cards offer nearly identical read and write speeds; we've only included results for third edition models here (in addition to one first edition CF card).

So when you purchase your Lexar CF, make sure it is 3rd edition to play safe.

Reference here.

[Klose]

Sorry to disappoint but this is really ancient news

[Martin21]

Thanks for the sharing the info......

[holeinone]

Ancient news to those who have not read it will still be fresh info.

[OneIndigo]

Thanks for the info. Definitely news to me

[ThomasD]

At least to me it's new, dun do a lot of research abt cards until you are abt to get one.

Just wondering why Eastgear still selling 2nd edition on their website? Or maybe they hasn't update their product.

http://www.eastgear.com/shop/index.php?cPath=19_20