Hi there,
Thank you guys for the tips, I don't think the problem relates to file size, WAVs up to 4 Gb are writen/read correctly in any of my disks (NTFS, FAT32, ext3).
Now, that's the kind of stuff that makes me crazy: I couldn't repeat the failure with a different, better quality card (1 Gb Kingston Elite Pro). Summing up, that's the way my FR2LE 'interacts'
with the two cards I have at hand:
Sandisk -> MP3 larger than (say) 100 Mb -->> FAILURE
Sandisk -> WAV no matter how large either at 44/16 or 44/24 -->> No problemo
Kingston -> MP3 larger than 100 Mb -->> No problem
Kingston -> WAV no matter how large either at 44/16 or 44/24 -->> No problem
Nice interaction, isn't? Guess there could be something in the way the Fostex creates mp3s that this particular card doesn't like, but can't say for sure. By the way, the machine only makes fixed rate (192 Kb) mp3s, no choices. Seemingly implements a recent version of the Xing encoder. No expert here but to me the Edirol R09 is better in producing compressed audio, with various bit rates to chose and using Fraunhofer's.
Saludos