I have a Kingston 8GB 45x CF card which no longer seems to work in my Marantz PMD-671.
I lent it to a friend who took it to Hampton and "patched" into someone's 722 CF slot with it.
He was able to transfer files off the card after the 1st night and use it again for 2nd night. After the 2nd night, he said he had some problems reading the card in his laptop and thought one of the pins on his reader was bent, so he brought it back to me with the 2nd night still on it.
I pulled the files off no problem and put it in the Marantz, which gave me an error message "format card on PC"...I figured that the 722 just had a different way of formatting, so I formatted the card, but now my Marantz will not even start up with the card in! i just get the startup screen where everything is lit up on the LCD screen but it doesn't give me any errors or info about the card and I cannot get into the 'edit' mode to format the card, it just won't read it.
I looked at the bottom of the card and there are clearly some scratches and possibly even damage to the pin holes, presumably from the mishap my friend had with the card after night 2. what's weird is the PC has no problem with it. and the Marantz works fine with my other 4GB card, so I'm wondering if there is either another way to format this card to see if that's the problem or if the bent pin on my friends' reader messed up the card bad enough that the Marantz will no longer take it, although the fact that I got an error the first time and it works fine on the PC makes me wonder?