Advice on Compact Flash Card

[Orphan]

Hi,
I want to purchase a 1 gigabyte compact flash card for my br900 but I find them listed as 60x, 80x, 150x etc. Which one is compatible with the br900.
Thanks..

[64Guitars]

That's debatable. Roland U.S. claims that you should only use CompactFlash cards that are 45X or slower. That's a problem because they're practically non-existent now.

http://cms.rolandus.com/assets/media/pdf/CF_Card_Guidelines.pdf

But it seems to me that the write speed is determined by the BR, not by the card. So I would think that you should use cards with a write speed equal to or greater than the BR's maximum write speed. I don't know what that maximum write speed is but I've been using 60X CompactFlash cards for several years without any problems. I have a SanDisk Ultra II (part # SDCFH-1024-901) and a Kingmax KCF-001G. I don't think the Kingmax is available anymore but you should be able to find the SanDisk Ultra II. I also have a 256MB SanDisk blue & red label (standard) CompactFlash card which works well, so I imagine the standard 1GB card would also work well.

The Roland.com website has a list of tested cards for the BR-600/864/900 which includes the Ultra II (901) I mentioned. I'd go by the part numbers on that list rather than Roland US's speed-based recommendation.

http://www.roland.com/products/en/_support/faq.cfm?PRODUCT=BR-600&iRcId=1832197&dsp=1

[Orphan]

 Thanks, I'll be ordering online.

[thouston]

There should be a firmware on BOSS' site that will update the CF card requirements.


http://www.oempcworld.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=CF1024

[hardlock]

I use the Sandisk Ultra II with good results in my MBR but a warning for any of these cards, I found out the hard way that if you start getting corruption, DO NOT try to fix it with "chkdisk" in your computer.  Wipes everything, even MP3s!

[guitarron]

Sandisk Ultra II, PNY, Lexar are what i have-haven't been able top get a 2 gig card to work though