Roland VS-890 digital audio workstation meets a Compact Flash card.

 

Meet my slightly run down Roland VS-890. Has some scratchy pots and a whiney 2GB HD but I kind of use it as a 6 channel mixer with onboard effects.

Whiney hard drive is bad news, I tried simply removing it but it does not boot past loading screen so Compact Flash time!

Ordered some CF to IDE, and SD to CF adaptors.

Pulled out the hard drive in it's fancy caddy.

First attempt was using the Panasonic 2GB SD card

BUT IT FAILED!

As did all subsequent trials with the variety of SD cards and 2 types of SD to CF.

Fortunately I have 2 real CF cards.

SUCCESS!

The machine booted successfully and formatted each of the two 128mb CF cards.

I will now look around for 2GB or 4GB cards to try.

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As a bonus, the 128MB Digitech card is from a JamMan so i had the opportunity to test the SD to CF adaptors.

Unsuccessfully :(
The JamMan would attempt to format all efforts, but would then reject the cards.

However the Akai 128MB card came from an MPC 500, which is very  happy to read the SD to CF converters.

So for the present, the Roland has a 128MB storage, the JamMan the original 128MB card, and the MPC 500 a 2GB SD card.