RE: Electrix Repeater CF-Card - technical parameters

["GINKGO - Erwin Van Heuverswyn" <ginkgo@telenet.be>]

Hello Florian and co-loopers,

After a long search and mis-hits, I found out that the problem with CF 
cards
and repeater is linked to not having an (ULTRA)DMA controller on board.
First I bought Transcend CF:
TS512MCF80 : 80x Speed 512MB
TS512MCF100I : Ultra Industrial 512MB
The repeater doesn't even take them!

What worked for me:
Pretec RCFH512EHGH with SAH05 Hitachi controller.
I bought the whole stock (4) of the German company Tecsys.
It was a real pleasure to deal with this company.
By coincidence I had found a small (8MB) Pretec CF that worked perfectly.
>From specs. of that CF we deduced what would not work and decided to go 
>for
the Pretec RCFH512EHGH with a controller just one step above the one on the
8MB, supporting 512MB, but no DMA!

Donations for this valuable information are welcome.

Best regards,
Erwin Van Heuverswyn
GINKGO sound-vision
email: ginkgo@telenet.be
Tel.: +32(0)9 223 29 73
GSM: +32(0)486/11 84 30
Krevelstraat 45
B-9000 GENT
BELGIUM




-----Original Message-----
From: Florian Anwander [mailto:fanwander@mnet-online.de]
Sent: vrijdag 16 april 2010 15:07
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Electrix Repeater CF-Card - technical parameters


Answering my self and for the archives

I did not find the real requirements, but by trying I found that
Transcend "Industrial CompactFlash" cards work properly in the Repeater
(Stereo, reverse and pitched up at the same time).
http://www.transcendusa.com/Products/ModDetail.asp?ModNo=15&LangNo=0&Func1No
=1&Func2No=13
The page says: Data transfer rate: 12MB/sec(Max).

I found them, because Transcend was the winner of a performancetest at
www.tomshardware.com

I bought them here (german shop, shipping worldwide):
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350230222933


Transcend offers them still in sizes suitable for the Repeater: 128MB/
256Mb/ 512MB

Regards, Florian

Florian Anwander schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I searched the archives, but did not find an answer:
> What are the dedicated requirements regarding read and write performance
> (MBit/Second) for the CF-Cards used in the repeater?
>
> Also: the Repeaters manual says it can handel memory up to 512MB; did
> anyone test, whether the Repeater accepts larger cards (it would be ok,
> if only 512 Mb are used)?
>
> Florian
>
>


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