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Roland SPD-S Flash card error

My SPD-S keeps telling me my flash card is unsupported. Im using a SanDisk 512mb and 1.0gb compact flash. Is this an improper card, or is there something wrong with my sampler??

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  • ashor99 Jul 24, 2008

    I have same promblem gays my memory card san disk 512mb i daonlownd sounds into memory when ever i put inspds it said card ematy any soultion i aprestietd gayes thanks.

  • Gjmayuri Aug 27, 2008

    I have 512 MB flash card and when inserted it shows unsupported. So, I checked in my computer and its working fine. So, I formatted in my computer (FAT) and then copied the data again in the card and tried again. But still it gives error - Unspported..

    Pl. suggest what to do ??

  • godspeedyou Sep 12, 2008

    I figured out the problem guys. The SPD-S is only compatible with certain brands and memory sizes of compact flash cards. I found a chart on Roland's website on which cards are compatible and which aren't.



    http://www.roland.com/products/en/_suppo...



    This solved my problem. I hope it solves all of yours.

  • Anonymous Jan 15, 2013

    I reformatted the cat with my computer. Set the allocation to 512, and format the card as exFAT. Hope this helps

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The card I have always been using is now also suddenly giving this message. I found an old SanDisk 16MB and a 1GB SanDisk that works perfectly in my Boss 864 and they also give the same message. Trying to go into formatting brings the message "no card!"

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For the "Unsupported" error message:

  • The SPD-S is only compatible with "TYPE 1" Compact Flash cards. Also, the maximum allowed size of the CF card is 512 mb. I tried 10 different CF card and they all worked fine although only 2 of them were actually listed as compatible cards but they were all Type 1 CF cards with 512 mb or less.
  • There is no way to avoid the type 1 restriction but you can cheat the SPD-S concerning the 512mb restriction. If you have a CF card with 1 gb or more and you don't mind to use only 512mb from it... you can use a disk partinionner tool (such as Partition Magic) to delete the current partition and create a new one of only 512mb (actually make 510 mb as the partition info takes some space).

For the "unformatted" error message:
  • Simply format your card as stated in page 67 of your manual.

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I formatted the disk in the SPDS & loaded my Wav samples into the Roland SPD folder & in still get the unformatted message. what could be the problem ?

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Compactflash card is showing damaged while inserting in spds

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..and copy the WAVs to the ROLAND/SPD folder

  • Anonymous Dec 31, 2008

    .. and ALWAYS "shut down" (=shift+card) before powering off!
    But hard, when suddenly everything goes black!

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The card have to be formated in the Roland SPD and not in computer FAT

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