It very well could be that the after-market card is better. I’ve seen others post that they have had similar problems with the stock one and OSX.

BTW, this doesn’t have anything to do with the memory card, but make sure your 2880 software is current. The latest update has placed the 2880 on my radar of pedals I need to buy. http://www.ehx.com/products/2880

It is very high on my list.

All the midi capabilities is really nice. I use an SMMH, and I hate having to bend over to reverse or change pitch. Being able to do so with a midi foot controller would be really nice.

I am curious what specific brand/ model aftermarket cards people have been using for the 2880. My factory supplied card is still functional but I would like to pickup some extra cards for the future.

I bought a Kingston brand 2gb card, formatted it using windows XP and have had lots of weird issues using it. It will record the first loop, won’t record after that. The punch-in button lights up, and then the unit becomes entirely unresponsive. I also tested the card in my camera, and it worked fine for photos…

Everything is back to normal after switching back to the factory supplied card in the 2880. It would be great if anyone could tell me exactly what aftermarket cards they have had success with. I want to avoid buying another seemingly compatible card.

thanks

Thanks for the reply…

I have tried formatting three different after market compact flash cards that i have kicking around… all of them are 2gb or under, all formatted and reformatted as fat 16 using windows xp and then tried again with gpartition in linux. Just one of them works correctly in the 2880 other than the factory supplied card. All of them work fine in my camera.

From what i can tell the 2880, or mine atleast, seems picky about what cards it functions well with.

I would really appreciate it if anyone could vouch for a specific brand/model of flash card that they have had success with.
Thanks

When I bought my Tascam 8-track there was a list of tested CF cards on the website, so I guess there are problems with some cards in certain equipment, I agree that EHX should at least have a small list of ‘recommended cards’ somewhere.

also make sure the cards are genuine products, there’s a lot of iffy looking cards on ebay and amazon.

if you have tried several cards without success then I would guess that there is some sort of formatting error happening… but I culdn’t say for sure.

OK so I have found the SOLUTION !!

I borrowed my dad’s PC (Windows7) and formated the CF card in FAT 16 but the “secret” for it to work properly is the “Allocation space” (sorry I’m translating from french )

So here are the instructions:

_Insert the CF card into your PC.
_Open “Computer”
_Right-click on your CF card icon
_select “Formatting”
_Now you have “Capacity”, “Format”, and “Allocation space” >> this is where you have to CHOOSE 64k if your CF card can handle it (some of my cards don’t – they are limited to 32k)
Of course in “Format” choose simply “Fat”

There you go

Good Luck

I received this answer from EHX :

“There are a few CF Card specifications that you need to look for: the
card must be between 128MB and 2GB and the card speed must be 40X or
greater. The 2880 will not be able to use card sizes outside of that
range. The San Disk Ultra II series is above 40X and so is the Lexar
Platinum II Series.”

But with the method i used (“Allocation Space”) it worked with a Lexar 133x 4GB (that did not work before the method was applied)

So in a nutshell,

_Use at least 40x speed CF cards.
_Format with the “Allocation method” (64k)
_Enjoy

Best,

Alex