By michaelkevin
Tue May 08, 2018 5:06 am
Hello, would be grateful for any input on these issues! ...
I have a 3000 running Valixi 3.50. My storage is a compact flash (don't know the brand/model of the card reader that is installed).
Does anyone have any general tips on preventing file corruption with this setup? Or perhaps some insight based on my recent run-ins with file corruption? Here's the rundown:
I've had quite a few files corrupting. It seems to only be sound/".snd" files that corrupt, but sometimes this will wreck an APS file with one corrupted sound file that loads as part of the APS. The errors I've got the past two days are FF50, FF80 (those two always come together), and F600.
A) the FF50 - FF80 one-two punch:
FF50: "Attention! The system was unable to access the hard disk. Be sure the SCSI drive is turned on, properly connected, and formatted. [Error code: FF50]"
Then, after I exit that message, I get this FF80 error message: "Attention! There is no floppy disk in the drive. Please insert a disk. [Error code: FF80]"
Then, when I go back to DISK / (7) Load, erase, rename ... A file that is NOT the first file of partition A is shown. It's the 11th file. weird.
I can give an exact occurrence of when this happened tonight. I was cataloging my CF card: renaming, erasing, general organization, etc. I was on disk H. It had two APS files. One called "HI SKY.APS" was loading just fine, a program with a bunch of synth samples and cool filter settings. Another called "CHET BREH.APS" wasn't loading--I didn't note the error message caused by "CHET BREH" but it was FF50 or F600--but I wasn't worried about keeping this "CHET BREH" program, so I just erased it along with the .snd files that were part of it. ***After I did this, one of the HI SKY sounds is now giving me the FF50 error. It had loaded up fine just a minute before. All I did was erase the "CHET BREH" APS file and its SND files that were not even in the HI SKY APS. And since this newly-corrupted SND file is in the HI SKY APS, I can't load that APS anymore. Bummed! I would love to use this APS, but even more, I'd like to know if I'm doing something wrong, if there's a discernible cause to this file corruption, or if I can do anything to avoid this kind of problem.
For extra details... the HI SKY APS sound file that has now corrupted is labelled "HISKY_CHCRD2C.snd". It's the eleventh file on partition H, where all this happened. I know that's a long file name, but that shouldn't cause corruption on the CF card, or incompatibility with Valixi, should it?
B) I was getting error F600 last night. I don't recall the exact circumstances or error message. But it was a similar situation with a couple .snd files causing this error message. I believe the error message involved disk formatting or active SCSI disk, or something like that. I'll post the error message if I get it again. I've still got partitions I-Z to catalog and clean up. But I won't erase any more files for the time being, since doing so seems to occasionally corrupt others!
Any help or suggestions or ideas or sympathy is much appreciated!!
I'd like to use my MPC 3000 to do some live performances this summer and fall, but I'm not sure I want to build performance programs with these corruption problems cropping up fairly regularly.
Cheers
Kevin
I have a 3000 running Valixi 3.50. My storage is a compact flash (don't know the brand/model of the card reader that is installed).
Does anyone have any general tips on preventing file corruption with this setup? Or perhaps some insight based on my recent run-ins with file corruption? Here's the rundown:
I've had quite a few files corrupting. It seems to only be sound/".snd" files that corrupt, but sometimes this will wreck an APS file with one corrupted sound file that loads as part of the APS. The errors I've got the past two days are FF50, FF80 (those two always come together), and F600.
A) the FF50 - FF80 one-two punch:
FF50: "Attention! The system was unable to access the hard disk. Be sure the SCSI drive is turned on, properly connected, and formatted. [Error code: FF50]"
Then, after I exit that message, I get this FF80 error message: "Attention! There is no floppy disk in the drive. Please insert a disk. [Error code: FF80]"
Then, when I go back to DISK / (7) Load, erase, rename ... A file that is NOT the first file of partition A is shown. It's the 11th file. weird.
I can give an exact occurrence of when this happened tonight. I was cataloging my CF card: renaming, erasing, general organization, etc. I was on disk H. It had two APS files. One called "HI SKY.APS" was loading just fine, a program with a bunch of synth samples and cool filter settings. Another called "CHET BREH.APS" wasn't loading--I didn't note the error message caused by "CHET BREH" but it was FF50 or F600--but I wasn't worried about keeping this "CHET BREH" program, so I just erased it along with the .snd files that were part of it. ***After I did this, one of the HI SKY sounds is now giving me the FF50 error. It had loaded up fine just a minute before. All I did was erase the "CHET BREH" APS file and its SND files that were not even in the HI SKY APS. And since this newly-corrupted SND file is in the HI SKY APS, I can't load that APS anymore. Bummed! I would love to use this APS, but even more, I'd like to know if I'm doing something wrong, if there's a discernible cause to this file corruption, or if I can do anything to avoid this kind of problem.
For extra details... the HI SKY APS sound file that has now corrupted is labelled "HISKY_CHCRD2C.snd". It's the eleventh file on partition H, where all this happened. I know that's a long file name, but that shouldn't cause corruption on the CF card, or incompatibility with Valixi, should it?
B) I was getting error F600 last night. I don't recall the exact circumstances or error message. But it was a similar situation with a couple .snd files causing this error message. I believe the error message involved disk formatting or active SCSI disk, or something like that. I'll post the error message if I get it again. I've still got partitions I-Z to catalog and clean up. But I won't erase any more files for the time being, since doing so seems to occasionally corrupt others!
Any help or suggestions or ideas or sympathy is much appreciated!!
I'd like to use my MPC 3000 to do some live performances this summer and fall, but I'm not sure I want to build performance programs with these corruption problems cropping up fairly regularly.
Cheers
Kevin