Drive Busy message

[Scorpios]

Lately I am getting a "drive busy message" on my microBR it will happen while recording and stops recording while it happens, just doesnt it every so often, wondering what is causing this (maybe my sd card is too slow?) It's pretty annoying when I cant sit next to the recorder go through a recording and get up to check it stopped half way through.

[guitarron]

I've experienced this lately as well-from what i understand, if a track in a song has a lot of takes or do overs and punch ins, the song needs to be optimized because those used takes stay in the memory, using up space on the card- i went thru and optimized all the songs on my card-seemed to help
my card is getting near full-well over half full-that's when it started

[Scorpios]

Yeah it only started on me lately, but even with brand new songs loaded to record with it seems to happen more and more... I think my SD card is about half full, maybe that's the problem, I never bothered optimizing any tracks, but there are not really anything I took an excesive amount of multiple takes on.

I will try backing up the card and starting new with it totally empty and see if the problem persists.

[guitarron]

i would definitely optimize all the songs

[Olarte]

i would definitely optimize all the songs

I agree.... I only have like 4 songs in a sandisk 1gb card... kept getting Drive busy and read\write errors.

I then bought a sandisk Ultra II 1gb (14.99 at circuit city by the way) Same thing.

I think the common thread is that I tend do a lot of takes. Now what I do is optimize after about 10 takes  or so and so far so good. it's easy enough to optimize. I think it's [Util] [Song] cursor> [Opt] [Yes] [Yes] [Exit]

ON a side note, if you optimize you cannot undo which by the way I find very useful. Does anyone know if you can do multiple Undo, or just the last step of whatever you were doing.

[guitarron]

You can undo only the last take-only work around i know of is to utilize the available vtracks

i optimize after every couple of takes or so just to be on the safe side-
since i optimised all songs on the card, i've experience no "Drive Busy" errors

[Olarte]

You can undo only the last take-only work around i know of is to utilize the available vtracks

i optimize after every couple of takes or so just to be on the safe side-
since i optimised all songs on the card, i've experience no "Drive Busy" errors

I'm glad that you are confirming that optimizing after every  few takes seems to have made the errors dissapear.

As mentioned earlier, I bought (upgraded from a standard Sandisk card to) an Ultra II sd card and that did not perform any faster and still gave me the Drive Busy\Card read errors. But ever since I started optimizing every 10 takes or so, all is clear sailing.

[Mr. Scar]

I'm getting the busy drive also. Do you recommend, going back and optimizing all previously recorded songs? I've got like 20 on my 1gig.

[Olarte]

I'm getting the busy drive also. Do you recommend, going back and optimizing all previously recorded songs? I've got like 20 on my 1gig.

I don't know about the previous ones, but are you optimizing the ones that you are getting drive busy errors on?

What I do now, is after I do about 10 takes, I do a quick optimize on the song I'm working on, and that seems to be fixing the problem. Still it's shame that this happens and that Roland has not addressed the problem.

[guitarron]

that is a good strategy-i do the same after about 2 or 3 takes