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5 Replies Last post: Nov 8, 2009 4:39 PM by popsrus  
Brucerollo   10 posts since
Aug 10, 2006
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Nov 6, 2009 2:33 PM

RE: SD Card crashing my Spider Jam

I was concerned about one of my SD Cards crashing my SJ.  Joe would you have any idea what would cause this?  Or Line 6 Miller or any of you guys out there?  The card worked fine for about 2 months and then it started apparently causing the amp to "pop and re-boot."  It did this 4 times and then I just wouldn't plug it in any more.  The first time it crashed was just with one of the tracks but it would read the rest of the tracks on the card.  Then it crashed everytime I plugged it in.  It wouldn't read anything on the card.  I had the card completely filled up with backing tracks and songs.  And the other full cards I have work perfectly (so far).  I have been going through the rest of my cards to see if they are o.k. and they seem to be.  I have about 9 other full cards.  Could this be just one isolated incident with a defective card?  I was concerned when I read some other folks were having the same problem.  Could the WAV files I've put on there be somehow corrupted?  I have owned the SJ for over a year and it is GREAT.  I always do the same procedure as far as dragging the MP3's into i Tunes and converting to WAV and have been successfully doing that ever since the upgrade to 2.09 so I can rule that out.  Any input/opinions/information anybody has on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

joegillespie Iknowathingortwo 443 posts since
Mar 31, 2007
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1. Nov 6, 2009 5:31 PM in response to: Brucerollo
Re: RE: SD Card crashing my Spider Jam

If it's only happening with one SD card, then clearly, it is the card than has gone faulty. A high percentage of chips of all kinds have faults. It's the same with hard drives. With chips, the ones found faulty at the time of manifacture are rejected but there are boderline ones that pass the initial inspection and fail some time later. Sometimes, with the correct formatting software, it is possible to 'map out' faulty memory or hard drive sectors which reduces the capacity slightly but if the fault is not with the memory but with the I/O controller, there's not much you can do.

 

Chuck it!

stevemason Juststartin' 89 posts since
Jul 25, 2008
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3. Nov 7, 2009 3:42 PM in response to: Brucerollo
Re: RE: SD Card crashing my Spider Jam

Joe Gilespie is the best suport Line 6 has. And he doesn't even work for them - lucky for us Spider Jam users that we have Joe

 

You sure don't see Line 6 responding the way he does.

popsrus   2 posts since
Nov 8, 2009
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5. Nov 8, 2009 4:42 PM in response to: Brucerollo
Re: RE: SD Card crashing my Spider Jam

I think my SD slot is faulty, the only way I can get it to recognize a fat 16 card is to push the card all the way into the slot so it bottoms out on the board.

I had to do this to get the FIrmware upgrade to work. Seems to be errors writing to the card at other times in its factory seated position.;

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