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SD-Card crushed by car

August 3rd, 2009, 5:49

Hi flash gurus!

I'm reading this forum for a long time and got quite some information in the whole process of reading, "playing" with my old HDDs and so on, but now I've got a problem with an SD-card and hope that you could tell me if it's even possible to repair.

Story:
My camera was crushed by a few cars, found the SD-card in the left overs without its shell, so just the pcb with the chips on it. One memory chip is ripped off at one side of the pcb, the other memory chip has a few loose pins.

Code:
Infos of the card and chips:
4GB SD (not SDHC) card from "Xtreme Memory"

both Memory chips:
Samsung 613
K9WAG08U1M
PCB0
FXB71730

controller chip:
SK6602
CARC
A0536
D20HQ-010


Would it be possible to swap those memory chips to another sd-card with the same controller or does it store "adaptives" like the flash chip on a hdd?

Would somebody in Germany / Hessen be able to repair it? Then PM me please.

Thanks in advance for your help :)

Greetings,
Zuujin
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Re: SD-Card crushed by car

August 3rd, 2009, 7:11

Maybe possible to transfer chip to an EXACT card, if your soldering skills are very good.

But finding a suitable may prove extremely difficult. Although there aren't adaptives as such in the controller as such, the sector geometry and "data mix" is very specific. So you "may" get lucky if you find exactly the same SD card with "SK6602 A0536" controller, which frankly is unlikely.

The only real solution is to remove the chips (assuming they are intact) and read with a suitable reader, then the data must be decoded.

I can do this in UK if you want to post it over. Not sure if we have a German flash guru here?

Re: SD-Card crushed by car

August 3rd, 2009, 7:48

Be VERY careful with the memory chips. They are very fragile. One single little crack would render it beyond recovery. Both memory chips must be readable. Hope they have survived.

Re: SD-Card crushed by car

August 18th, 2009, 17:33

Thank you for your answer regarding my adaptive-question pcimage :)
pcimage wrote:So you "may" get lucky if you find exactly the same SD card with "SK6602 A0536" controller, which frankly is unlikely.
Unfortunately you're right. Until now I wasn't able to find a card with matching controller, so I guess I'll have no choice but to forget those pictures or to begin to save money.

Thanks for your time,
Zuujin

Re: SD-Card crushed by car

August 20th, 2009, 17:29

PM me for pricing details. :-)
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