CF-Card for BH-C-353

[Hansoon]

Can't find the thread anymore here about what type and/or brand of CF-Card is best for upgrading the older BH-C-253/353 series. Any advise please?

Thanks

Hans

[Synaux]

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I use these on everything - ensure you do not use anything larger that 256mb - and do not format, et cetera
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Description: Getting an invalid card error when loading firmware with a Crucial© 128MB Compact Flash card.
Solution: CAUSE: The Crucial© 128MB CF card is not supported.
SOLUTION: Load firmware using the recommended CF Card.
Note : The recommended card is the 128MB SanDisk© Compact Flash card (p/n 7660 4036 01).



However, these do not work for some reason:

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[Hansoon]

Thanks, anyone else with recommendations please? That Sandisk CF-Card is not available here in Europe.

Hans

[paulrid]

Have you checked out ebay? I still find plenty on there.
Paul.

[Hansoon]

There are Sandisk 128mb cards but not exactly the "Shoot&Store" one as Synaux mentioned.

Hans

[paulrid]

I've had a few off ebay 128mb & 256mb which all worked for me.
Paul.

[Synaux]

I bought a batch ~15 of em off ebay so I could have preloaded firmware for something stupid like $5.00 each.


SanDisk Shoot Store 128 MB CompactFlash I Card Retail SDCFS 128 A99 619659024413 | eBay

[Synaux]

Here is another one that has more time on it.
This one ships in USA, but that is a somewhat generic item to fill out on Ebay when posting items. Send them a message asking if they ship to Europe

There are plenty more, but for 3-4x more.

SanDisk Shoot Store 128 MB CompactFlash I Card SDCFS 128 A10 New 619659022624 | eBay

[Hansoon]

Guys, I never had to load a CF card with firmware (I know, I know...) now I need the firmware for the c-253 to be transferred to my brand new CF-Card.

I have the Firmware Imaging Toolkit and firmware files as follows:

"C253.img" and also "C253 R6 Firmware.EXE"

The Imaging Toolkit is asking me either for files:

"Indexed Firmware File" or "Compressed Firmware Image File" or "Uncompressed Firmware Image File"

What to take please?

Hans

(PS Though I'm an old goat in the copier business do I feel very unsure about the firmware issue for these - for me very - problematic series of machines. Thanks for understanding)

[JR2ALTA]

I'll start you from scratch, just in case. This isn't the worst way to update firmware, but I admit it's not as easy as USB. You need a CF card and a couple backups. You cannot format in Windows. You must format inside the Toolkit and of course you need a card reader.

Firmware-

Run the R6 .exe it will extract files into a folder called "card_work" this is where the file is that the Toolkit needs.


Toolkit

Click Settings.

Select Advanced Features.

Click Format Card and format it

Click write firmware to a card, browse the "card_work" and it will select the tar.gz file