What are the speed or other specs for SD cards for firmware. I was using 2G Kingston elite pro 50 for a long time but the price has gone thru the roof and its hard to find anything smaller than a 4g. I know they wont work if they are too big or too slow.
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We bought a machine a while back that had a PS card in it that wasn't matched to the machine. I used the panasonic formatter on it, and now I use it specifically for firmware updates. 128M(122M actual), and it works good. Got anything like that laying around?NEVER ASSUME ANYTHING -
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No, I have a crap load of 64s that I got way back when. But they are too small for the newer machines. Then I got some 2G as mentioned above and they are in use, and work well, When I could find any affordable ones of those I bought some 4G Ridata Lightining and they dont work at all, The Panasonic formatter doesnt recognize them and they lock my computer up. They are going back.
I prefer to have a card for each machine but today was the first day I tried the Ridata and I needed to make a card for a SP5200 that I will set up later today. So I had to erase and format a C6501 card and use it.
I dont know what the problem is with the Ridata, probably not fast enough. I remember it being a factor.sigpic
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You may find good pricing on tigerdirect.comComment
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I found this. But it still doesnt tell me the speed. One card will say 50x and another will say 10mb/sec. I found out that SDHC will not necessarily work in SD host. SDHC is 4G and up.sigpic
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512MB Micro SD cards and adapter formattted to FAT16 works fine for me. Not too pricey either.Comment
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micro? so you have to use an adaptor?sigpic
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the newer ricohs bring all a 128mb sd card with it, containing some useless crap; they are perfect for firmware stuff
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thanks herrman, 128 may be enoughsigpic
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I don't work on Savins a whole lot any more but I has having issues with SD cards being to large and started partitioning my cards. Seemed to work pretty well.“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.” BukComment
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hmmm, partitioning, I had'nt considered thatsigpic
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If you're referring to the Java VM card Ricoh has some pretty cool functional extensions that run on top of that Java card - better make sure your customer doesn't want to do anything like that before you re-purpose it.
I've also had bad luck with certain cards - especially SDHC cards in older machines (newer machines seem to recognize them). I've also had problems with some cards bigger than 1G, but repartitioning them to 512mb for the copier firmware seems to work fine. You can use the extra space for something else, but the copiers generally won't recognize a second partition.
General rule of thumb though is if the SD card isn't recognized by your laptop or locks it up then it's toast. Nothing to do with size or speed, just a crappy card. Possible exception is SDHC cards may not be fully compatible with older SD readers.
The above problems is why I've been doing most of my updates using the Web Image Monitor. Yes, it's slower, but how often do you really have to update firmware? If it works out of the box, leave it alone.73 DE W5SSJComment
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The Java card is 128M and all the firmware bundles I checked are less than 80M so this is a good alternative.
I understand what you mean Shadow, but Nobody has ever asked about PPDM any of that. ( I have probably cursed myself with that statement) So I dont install the card and I replace the button on the control panel with a blank one.
If my back is to the wall I have the cards and CD but so far I have been lucky.
BTW, these 4 G cards that didnt work were SDHC so I think that is the problem. Anyway I am sending them back.sigpic
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