USB sticks - getting them to work!

[Screeching Donna]

Hello - I dare say all this is really well known but I've been messing about with my new (second-hand) GT and a few USB sticks and in case it's of any use my basic observations are...

sometimes you can plug one in when the synth is on and it works. More often, you have to plug the stick in and THEN turn the synth on - often you will find that a stick will work just fine used this way (all samples saved etc, so far as I can tell so far) but if it's plugged in while the synth is on, then it won't even format, let alone allow you to write data to it.

A stick which, when checked on a windows xp machine, shows up as formatted with FAT32, will freeze my GT at the start screen. (You turn it on - get the Roland screen and it just stays there forever). Taking the stick out and re-starting the synth gets you back to normal. In my case the guilty stick can ONLY be formatted as FAT32, it's a 4gb Kingston while the others I'm using range from 128mb to 2 gb. Don't know if the freeze is a FAT32 thing, a 4gb thing or a Kingston thing or something else. My experiments continue and I will report back.

A Maxell 1gb from Superdrug seems OK, as does a Boots own brand 2 gb. (But ONLY when plugged in before booting the synth up!!!)

Perhaps all this is in the manual or has been done a million times, but perhaps it will be of some use to someone sometime. When I find out more I shall post it to this thread.

Cheers.

[Screeching Donna]

I put the 2gb Boots own brand into the windows machine and formatted it FAT32. Back into GT, switch on - works fine. Saved a project to it, loaded it back in, samples present and correct it would seem. So the cause of "the freeze" wasn't the FAT32-ness. Perhaps it was the 4gb-ness. Or the Kingston-ness.

[Splat]

I don't think it can go over 2GB. I have a Kingston 2GB one and it works perfectly fine, doesn't matter when I plug it in.

2GB is the limit.

[Screeching Donna]

Thanks for that - I'll try getting a Kingston 2bg and see how I get on with that. I've even tried ordering a couple of costly Roland sticks. I have my doubts about them ever appearing though...

Just occasionally one of mine does actually work when I plug it in after the synth's on but there doesn't seem to be any logic as to why one time and not another. Just for my own satisfaction it would be nice to know what would happen with the "These definitely work" Roland sticks. It's not really much of a pain having to put the stick in before boot-up but if it's not something other owners have to do then it would be nice to know why I'm different! (I'm on OS 2.0, by the way).

Thanks again.

[ToonSpirit]

Hello

I have a Super Talent 8GB plugged on my GT and it works perfectly.

[dirtyherri]

Which super talent exactly?

Best wishes
Matthias
www.rokerij.de

[dirtyherri]

Which super talent exactly?

Best wishes
Matthias
www.rokerij.de