Topic: Edirol R-09HR - Part THREE

[udovdh]

HR with 1.05 and a Kingston 16G card.
I notice that after a recording session the HR doesn't want to read the card anymore:
It starts up but 'freezes' at the startupscreen before it shows the first trackname etc.
Removing power revives the HR but doesn't not fix the issue.
My PC can read the card and retrieve the files which are fine.
In a previous occurrence fsck.vfat found two small anomalies with the signature values which were fixed. After that the HR could open and read the card again.

Of course I can reformat the card in the HR and see what happens, but what can I do when this issue keeps happening?

[udovdh]

Well, it happened again.
I recorded about one hour of soundboard at 88.1/24. The HR would not start fully after coming home and powering up the device.
The PC reads the card fine. `dmesg` shows me:

FAT: Invalid FSINFO signature: 0x41645252, 0x61417272 (sector = 1)

fsck.vfat can fix that but it happens (almost) every time.
Can anybody explain?
Can anybody reproduce this issue?

Also:


# fsck.vfat -a /dev/sde1
dosfsck 3.0.0, 28 Sep 2008, FAT32, LFN
FSINFO sector has bad magic number(s):
  Offset 0: 0x41645252 != expected 0x41615252
  Auto-correcting it.
Free cluster summary wrong (4294967295 vs. really 446653)
  Auto-correcting.
Performing changes.
/dev/sde1: 1 files, 48595/495248 clusters

Does this help?

[Sebastian]

# fsck.vfat -a /dev/sde1
dosfsck 3.0.0, 28 Sep 2008, FAT32, LFN
FSINFO sector has bad magic number(s):
  Offset 0: 0x41645252 != expected 0x41615252
  Auto-correcting it.
Free cluster summary wrong (4294967295 vs. really 446653)
  Auto-correcting.
Performing changes.
/dev/sde1: 1 files, 48595/495248 clusters

Did you format the card in the R-09HR or in Linux? A bad magic number at sector 0 looks like a formatting "error".

[gmm6797]

just recorded another show with this, and compared to my 722, I am starting to wonder if there should be a "R09 no more than 9" setting... the entire show looks (in sound forge) like there are no highs or lows during the music and I dont get that with the 722

[bgalizio]

just recorded another show with this, and compared to my 722, I am starting to wonder if there should be a "R09 no more than 9" setting... the entire show looks (in sound forge) like there are no highs or lows during the music and I dont get that with the 722

What was your gain setting?

[gmm6797]

for the show yesterday, 20

[tbrown4]

External mics? Pre-amp...are you using one? What ya got workin?

[gmm6797]

Its all in my sig, but.....
Schoeps MK4 > nBox + > R090HR set to 20 and every switch off

[69mako]

Were all of your batteries up to snuff?

Mako

[gmm6797]

Yeep, fresh of the charger a couple of hours before the show... the same ones I use all the time with no issues or concerns... meter was down just the little itsy bitsy tick at the beginning (and I have run them down way more than this before)

[69mako]

Have you tried to repeat the problem at home?  Were all of your connections secure?

[udovdh]

# fsck.vfat -a /dev/sde1
dosfsck 3.0.0, 28 Sep 2008, FAT32, LFN
FSINFO sector has bad magic number(s):
  Offset 0: 0x41645252 != expected 0x41615252
  Auto-correcting it.
Free cluster summary wrong (4294967295 vs. really 446653)
  Auto-correcting.
Performing changes.
/dev/sde1: 1 files, 48595/495248 clusters

Did you format the card in the R-09HR or in Linux? A bad magic number at sector 0 looks like a formatting "error".

After formatting the card in Linux the HR accepts the card and works well.
Same for formatting the card in the HR (which I tried as well).
After recording some material the situation that I described occurs.

To be sure I can do a test, again:
Format card in HR. Record one hour. Shut down HR. Boot up HR. See if it works or 'freezes'.
Format card in Linux. Record one hour. Shut down HR. Boot up HR. See if it works or 'freezes'.

[jobseek2001]

Its all in my sig, but.....
Schoeps MK4 > nBox + > R090HR set to 20 and every switch off

20!? You know what signal that takes for 0dBFS?
And you are using a 'pre'?

[Scooter123]

Chris Church told me that the Edirol 0 gain was about a "45" setting; Anything below that and it is attenuating and will add noise. 

Sheesh, I've had the 09 in front of ear bursting stacks at 55 and still had to boost post.  I get huge dynamic range with all my mikes, (mk4, atcmc and dpa), so something is wrong here. 

Not sure whether your N Box has a 20db boost and if so, whether you had it on. 

[gmm6797]

Its all in my sig, but.....
Schoeps MK4 > nBox + > R090HR set to 20 and every switch off

20!? You know what signal that takes for 0dBFS?
And you are using a 'pre'?

And no, what level is the 0dbfs? That was my initial question

The nbox+ is the pre-amp