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sjurick
Total Posts: 47
Joined 07-01-2005 status: Regular |
What is the acceptable media for backing up user created patches on the Motif ES8? I “used” to have a Smart Media card to record to, but that’s since been long lost. I tried using several different USB drives but to no avail. Each time the Motif tried to format them I got a “-1” error occurred message. Tried various USB1, USB2, USB3 (not supported I’m sure) drives with varying capacities 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, but all are giving the error.
Can I attach an actual USB hard drive to it?
Thanks,
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nbadesign
Total Posts: 994
Joined 08-20-2007 status: Guru |
What is the acceptable media for backing up user created patches on the Motif ES8? I “used” to have a Smart Media card to record to, but that’s since been long lost. I tried using several different USB drives but to no avail. Each time the Motif tried to format them I got a “-1” error occurred message.
You should posted your question in Motif ES forum. Regarding USB drives, only those up to 4Gb could be used, although 2Gb is much better solution. Higher capacities could not be readable also due to the fact that they are newer types formatted as extFat or even NTFS. Motif ES could only read Fat or Fat16 format.
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meatballfulton
Total Posts: 3022
Joined 01-25-2005 status: Guru |
USB thumb drives must be 4GB or less to work with the ES. USB hard drives can be any size, I used a 60GB unit with my ES for 5 years. You may have to reformat the drive with the Motif first since modern drives don’t come formatted as FAT16 any more. |