Re: AW: CFC Speeds for Repeater

[Tom Griesgraber <tom@thossounds.com>]

Hi CM (and all)

I was able to order CFC direct from PreTec that have the Hitachi controller.  The 128 they sent is working perfectly! Cost was about $48 plus shipping. 

Tom


On Jan 26, 2005, at 9:44 PM, CM wrote:

> Anyone know the best place to get these Pretec 512MB chips?  Is this the same item?  (I notice the "different" part number, is why I'm asking)
>  
> http://www.mobileplanet.com/product.asp?dept_id=1446&pf_id=MP970882&src=IMFRO
>  
> thx!
> From: Gunnar Backman [mailto:brakophonic@telia.com]
>  Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 12:14 PM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: AW: CFC Speeds for Repeater
>
> Hi
>
> I got this of the Electrix Forum since I had problems with my Simpletech 256 MBCF
> "Recently I bought Pretec 512MB I-Grade CompactFlash Disk (Hitachi SAH05) Ref: CFH512EHG and it works perfectly."
>
> Gunnar Backman
> Brak(E)man Prod/Brakophonics
> E-mail brakophonic@telia.com
> http://www.brakophonic.com
>
>
>
> As far as I understand it, CFCs destined to work are those with a
> Hitachi chipset (information from Electrix or from their user group, and
> they weren't more specific as to which chipset of Hitachi. Guess it's
> the one which was available when the Repeater was released). From
> sustained write/read speed, you can do the math yourself, ending up with
> something well below 1MB/s.
>
> Rainer
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Tom Griesgraber [mailto:tom@thossounds.com]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. Januar 2005 19:12
> An: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Betreff: CFC Speeds for Repeater
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Like many folks I got a new digital camera for Christmas, and it of
> course came with a pretty small CFC. In buying a new one for it I
> learned that some manufacturers are now giving write speeds on their
> CFC. I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with this and the
> Repeater.
>
> Lexar is making CFC that are labeled things like 4X, 8X... and I've
> seen as high as 80X. For my camera I opted for a 512MB 40X which they
> claim is capable of a sustained write speed of 6.0MB per second (they
> say nothing about read speeds). "X" to them means 150KB per second. I
> tried this card in the Repeater and while it seemed ok for some small
> mono loops, as soon as I tried stereo recording the Repeater instantly
> reported "CFC SLOW"
>
> I also tried the 16MB Lexar 8X that came with the camera and got the
> same results (stereo looping was too much for it).
>
> So.. The SimpleTech 128MB I bought from Electrix years ago is still the
> biggest CFC I've found that works. Of course.. there's always the 80X
> Lexar (?)
>
>
> Anybody have any other findings?
>
> Thanks!
> Tom

Tom Griesgraber
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760-942-1031