20 May
2005
20 May
'05
12:54 a.m.
dennis barton:
Has anyone experimented with using memory cards with a
SCSI card reader on
the Roland S-series? This is an s760.
No, I haven't tried anything like this. But I'd like to make an
observation anyway...
I have tried it with 2 SCSI card readers with a PCMCIA
card to Compact Flash
adaptor and 32 m CF card and no luck. :(
Sampler cannot format the cards, so they can't be written to.
I take it that it's a 32 megabyte card? That may be a bit on the small
side. The Roland S-760 OS has a fairly fixed structure when formatting
a hard disk and I assume that anything on the SCSI bus rather than the
floppy drive will be treated as a hard disk. This structure needs space
for the directory/table of contents. I don't recall how much space it
needs, but it might mean that the sampler will refuse to format anything
it considers too small.
OK, so that's largely speculation, but I wouldn't rule the idea out
based on a test with relatively small media.
Cheers,
Bernie