Using Lexar 4gb CF card; so far no problems, but . . .

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Using Lexar 4gb CF card; so far no problems, but . . .

By bedouin Sun Jun 29, 2008 4:26 am
I bought a 4gb Lexar CF card for use in my 500, but just noticed after reading the specifications in the MPC's manual that the limit is 2gb. I'm not experiencing any problems, and I see that the MPC formatted the card as FAT32 -- so theoretically I should be able to use the full 4gb on my MPC right?
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Re: Using Lexar 4gb CF card; so far no problems, but . . .

By Ocular Sat Jul 05, 2008 1:31 am
My question is: If you have more than 2 gb of samples on your 4 gb CF card, do all X amount gb's of samples show up on the load menu when you go to load them? I always assumed the MPC 500 would arbitralily cut off certain samples/ folders after the supposed 2 gb limit. I really have no idea as i only have a half full 2 gb CF card.

Re: Using Lexar 4gb CF card; so far no problems, but . . .

By master-ceo Sat Jul 05, 2008 4:31 am
The 500 Reads everything on lets say an 8gb Microdrive. The MPC 500 can only read 2 GB max of a Compact Flash Card.

Microdrive (Moving Parts) -MPC will Read whatever size. The Biggest I used is 8gb Microdrive
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Compact Flash (No Moving Parts) -MPC will only Recognize and Read up to 2gb
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Re: Using Lexar 4gb CF card; so far no problems, but . . .

By Emilie Sat Jul 05, 2008 11:46 am
master-ceo wrote:The 500 Reads everything on lets say an 8gb Microdrive. The MPC 500 can only read 2 GB max of a Compact Flash Card.

Microdrive (Moving Parts) -MPC will Read whatever size. The Biggest I used is 8gb Microdrive
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Compact Flash (No Moving Parts) -MPC will only Recognize and Read up to 2gb
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Err... I use a 4 gig Compact Flash that is full loaded with samples. No problem here ;-)

Re: Using Lexar 4gb CF card; so far no problems, but . . .

By master-ceo Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:58 pm
bedouin wrote:How can that make any sense when the MPC has no way of knowing whether it's dealing with a flash or microdrive?


Dunno. Its odd, but the same senario with my 1k. Reads any size Microdrive but only up to a 2G CF. Real Odd.


eimer wrote:
master-ceo wrote:The 500 Reads everything on lets say an 8gb Microdrive. The MPC 500 can only read 2 GB max of a Compact Flash Card.

Microdrive (Moving Parts) -MPC will Read whatever size. The Biggest I used is 8gb Microdrive
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Compact Flash (No Moving Parts) -MPC will only Recognize and Read up to 2gb
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Err... I use a 4 gig Compact Flash that is full loaded with samples. No problem here ;-)



Good stuff. I'll test out a 4G cf again later today.
I guess the 500 reads all the cards. my bad, I guess I'm wrong. Last time I checked a 4g CF, it didnt work. I had no poblems at all running big Microdrives.


Peace
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Re: Using Lexar 4gb CF card; so far no problems, but . . .

By TiKkO Wed Mar 21, 2012 3:59 am
Did you update the OS? There is an MPC500 operating system update on the Products > MPC500 > Downloads page (version 1.31 I believe it is).
The only thing I can think of is maybe some of you have the updated OS and some have the original stock OS??
I just bought a 4GB SanDisk CF card and I'm dating the OS right now.
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Re: Using Lexar 4gb CF card; so far no problems, but . . .

By TiKkO Wed Mar 21, 2012 4:02 am
btw, did the 32GB work? That'd save me from having to buy a handful of cards.
I'm gonna upgrade the memory to 128MB some time this week but it's kind of annoying that it uses an odd type of memory. My Ensoniq ASR-X Pro upgraded with some old memory I just had laying around.
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