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#56233 - 10/08/02 06:18 PM
Some Thoughts On The KN7000 SD Card
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Registered: 12/02/99
Posts: 924
Loc: Johnson City, TN USA
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I am in the process of transferring most of the song setups and styles from the hard disk of my KN5000 to a 128Meg Sandisk SD card for the KN7000. As many of you know, KN5000 files are much larger than KN6000+ files and you can usually get less than 10 on a floppy. I had previously backed up my hard disk to my laptop and went through the process of editing the file names to long file names in anticipation of dragging and dropping them to the KN7000 SD card. Boy did I get a surprise when I tried to transfer the files. Those of us that are familiar with digital cameras and other USB stuff are accustomed to the camera acting like a disk drive for the computer and you can just drag and drop files from one to the other. Not so with the KN7000. So far, the only use I can find for the USB connection is to record digitally to the computer, which is much better than analog to the computer. But, not much use, if any, for file management. I don’t use mass memory much for sequences. I use it primarily for song setups that contain the style and panel memory settings for each song.
So, the process of transferring files means copying the files from the hard disk backup (in my case a CD) to a floppy and then doing a floppy copy to the SD card. For KN5000 files that means that you can copy five or six files to the SD card from a full floppy. You can’t merge a second floppy to the same SD card folder because the process deletes the previous stuff you copied to the SD card folder. In addition, the floppy copy can only work with the old-fashioned 6-character file name so any file names that are longer get truncated. So, I had to resort to copying a few files to separate folders on the SD card. Then, using the song copy utility for the SD (there is no move utility) I copied files one at a time from one folder to another to try to fill the 20 spaces on each folder. There is no utility to delete a folder so each file had to be deleted one at a time from the original folder that had been used. It may be possible to copy an empty (or almost empty) floppy to a folder to delete unneeded files. I haven’t tried yet.
This is agonizing. . . .
I have filled 30 folders of the SD card space. When I last noticed the memory readout showed that I had consumed 33% of the card capacity. Now I notice that the memory readout shows that I have 80864 MB free and I have used 0% (zero) of available space. Something wrong somewhere. The files are still there and everything works OK. It’s just the read out utility that’s wrong. Tomorrow I’ll add some more files and see if the available space readout fixes itself.
By the way, I am using a Sandisk Cruzer card drive (card reader) to backup the work I have done with the SD card to my laptop. The backup of about 40MB takes just three or four minutes. I really like the Cruzer. It’s small and works fine.
I hope someone from Technics reads this.
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