The SD card that is know not to work with CF is the "PNY"
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eastern remark : yep, while actually most brand will work, honnestly, I once found a PNY brand card which had a radically different master boot record structure that's why I advice to get good quality cards, also because I know sandisk and kingston are good & reliable brands.
if the thing works with the default package, you are probably adding weird things to the sound bank. The beep can mean :
- no boot sound. No big deal, you get a beep instead
- no config file
- no led config file
not finding the file while you actually see it on the sd means that the module couldn't find it anyway :
- mis spelling / typing mistake when renaming the file
- having the "hide classic extension" in the windows file explorer. Makes you rename files like config.txt.txt that appear to be config.txt. Same for raw files.
- having MORE files copied in the bank directories. You should have only the required files, no more, the module only looks for the the first 32 FAT entries (including the . and .. directories, which are some sort of special files... for those who worked on MS-DOS in the past... or who are used to linux / unix OS)
hope this helps
Erv'
These are all some GREAT things I should be adding to the CF Troubleshooting thread:
* Use only quality brands for SD (AVOID "PNY")... Kingston and Sandisk are two good examples
* Try a fresh or "known to be good" set of battery cells... believe me--it's happened to me before, and I chased it all over the place until trying such a simple thing.
* Don't allow windows to make any special "check marks" on the files (as in 'ready for archive' or whatever)
* Look out for extra "hidden" files like "thumbs.db" sneaking in there
* Defrag your hard drive, because if it's REALLY bad... you could have some copy issues when going to the SD
* Do NOT let more files than are supposed to be there get into your directories
* Watch for the extra text files in Erv's default settings
* When in doubt, use my compendium CD... I'm 99.8% positive everything on it is spot on
* Copy all files "en masse" to the SD. If problems occur, check to be certain that the files themselves don't have some kind of CRC error (for example, you downloaded it partially from a site)
* When all else fails, go back to the basics and try the DEFAULT packages with no frills. If this STILL doesn't work--now you can be fairly certain you have some bigger problems
got him by email for further diagnostics of the boards. Can be bad reset, missing (escaped) part or a microcontroller not being fully in the specs.
Erv'