Thx mgofmc, gonna try the 32GB variant on my 2500 and report back.
Tried a Lexar Professional 800X 8GB (UDMA 7), and no go.Can save projects to it but they freeze randomly (format doesn't really work,
and can't access the card from PC).
Trying to see what the fastest cards we can use are.
Not sure what the MPC internal operation is,
but if I had my guess I'd say 33MB/s if it's using IDE to CF adapter.
Edit - here is a good read. Not really for 1000/2500 but things
can be learned from it, and perhaps on the safe side of compatible?
http://www.mpchunter.com/compact-flash- ... eshooting/Wonder if the 1000/2500s prefer "fixed disk" operation..
Anyone using "UDMA" cards with any luck?
Edit2 -
according to wikiCF+ and CompactFlash Revision 3.0 (2004) added support for up to a 66 MByte/s data transfer rate (UDMA 66), 25 MByte/s in PC Card mode, added password protection, along with a number of other features. CFA recommends usage of the FAT32 filesystem for storage cards larger than 2 GB.
I'm guessing the 1000/2500 is using CF Rev 3.0 (maybe older).
Doing a quick benchmark, loading 78 drum sample adding up to 54MB:
-took 22 seconds to load off a 4GB 200x Lexar Platinum II.
-took 24 seconds to load off the internal 120GB HD (likely crappy)
One 53MB sample:
-took 26 seconds to load off the 4GB 200x Lexar Platinum II.
-took 31 seconds to load off the internal 120GB HD (likely crappy)
There is very little difference in load times between CF, and HD.
The bottleneck might be the MPCs IDE system. Rocking a big 2.4MB/s here!!
Will do the same test with that 50MB/s card once it comes in.
Hope it works (even if slowly haha)