Hi, guys! I’m new to this website (love it! you guys seem like a helpful bunch!), and pretty new to non-software music production in general, and I’m having a little bit of trouble getting my Motif to recognize my XD card. I have searched this website and learned the basics (smartmedia sucks, scsi sucks, it’s best to get xd cards and a smartmedia card adapter, motif can’t see over 128mb, must be FAT16, etc).

So I went out and bought a few 128 MB xd-picture cards (these ARE the same as the regular xd cards, right?), i got the smartmedia adapter for them, and I bought a reader for them for my PC. I can get the reader on the PC to read the cards just fine, but for some reason my motif says “Disk or card not ready” every time I try to format it on the motif or even access it. I formatted it to FAT on my PC, which didn’t help.

Does anyone have any idea what may be the problem? Thanks in advance!

You could try to format it on the Motif . . .

Are XD picture cards the same?? Worth a check.

Cheers

I did try formatting it on the motif, but it wouldn’t even see that i had a card in there. Before Buying the XD picture cards, I did research to make sure they were the same thing as regular xd cards and i couldn’t find anything anywhere to lead me to believe they were different.

So do you guys think I’m just out of luck? Bad reader on the motif? I had high hopes for this thing :/

Did you ever get anywhere on this. I have the same issue.

chris_s - 16 November 2011 07:22 PM

Did you ever get anywhere on this. I have the same issue.

+1

I never resolved it. I ended up buying a used SMC card. I got the impression from something that I read that the adaptor may be preventing the whole assembly from being inserted far enough so it isn’t making contact inside. I don’t know if that is true or not but the adaptor works fine when I plug it into my laptop (through a multi-card adaptor).