2 gb sd card

[denosaur]

Hello , I just bought a 2 GB micro SD card for my android tablet.Being inquisitive I popped it into an an SD adapter and then into my br micro and voila ! it works.I was under the impression that the br micro had a 1 GB max.Will the machine only recognise 1 gig and disregard the other 1 gig on the card or, will it read the 2 gig? is there any way of seeing how much memory is being used, as per android pad, or is this not catered for?
Thanks in advance John.

[Oldrottenhead]

i have used cards up to 4gb in my micro br, it would probably work with larger cards too. but it will only recognise and be able to use 1gb of space on the card.

if you click the utility button  click the cursor under it a few times , screen will show remain info: OFF. use the plus value button to turn it on. then when you record it will show much recording time is left. to find out how much space is used you will need to connect the card or micro br to a pc and check. remembering that the mbr only sees 1gb off data on the card.
hope that helps.

[64Guitars]

i have used cards up to 4gb in my micro br, it would probably work with larger cards too.

Actually, it won't work with larger cards. The reason is that the Micro BR's operating system uses FAT16 which doesn't support cards above 4GB. Also, anything over 4GB is an SDHC card and I don't think the Micro BR can recognize SDHC cards. Wikipedia says "host devices designed for SDSC do not recognize SDHC or SDXC memory cards, although some devices can do so through a firmware upgrade". As far as I know, the Micro BR has not had a firmware update that would allow it to recognize SDHC cards. So that means it can only use SDSC cards which have a maximum capacity of 4GB. The 4GB cards are a bit of a gamble because some are actually SDHC cards, and there can be other incompatibilities as well. I'd stick with 2GB cards, or 1GB if you can find them.

[denosaur]

Thanks for the replies I was slightly mystified there for a moment.

[greg_m]

Hi. Sorry for bumping old topic. It's about the BR-80, not Micro BR though. I bought my BR-80 recently second hand and it came with Toshiba 2GB SD card. The card is probably enough for me, but just for curiosity I've checked my other SanDisk 4GB SDHC and it also works. So the conclusion is that not all the SDHC cards won't work in the BR-80. Actually the 4GB card formatted in the BR-80 is FAT32. Perhaps we can make a list of cards compatible with the BR recorders. Roland website is very vague about it.

[peterp]

The BR-80 is a very different recorder from the original micro-br
The BR-80 supports SDHC cards up to 32 Gb in size, it does not support the newer SDXC cards.
http://www.roland.com/support/article/?q=faq&p=BR-80&id=62152651

[na_th_an]

1Gb cards are nowhere to be found in my country since 2009 or so, and that was the year I got my MBR. So I've always used it with every cheap 2Gb SD I've found, with no problems whatsoever - Just one of my cards got "write errors" when it was approaching the maximum 1Gb of space allowed, but maybe it was a surface problem.

I wish I could buy 1Gb cards, I'd buy a truck of them. But it seems that the current minimum is 2Gb. I'd say grab them before they are gone too!

4Gb cards, as mentioned, can be problematic, specially if you buy them today as many of them tend to be SDHC cards.

[Geir]

- Just one of my cards got "write errors" when it was approaching the maximum 1Gb of space allowed, but maybe it was a surface problem.

I think that has nothing to do with the card. When you're approaching the size of the card you WILL get write errors !! You should always have at least 2-300Mb free to be avoid getting any write errors.