Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Typically on every major write you lose a few cells, and there are usually quite
a few alternates for every location.  Over all it will take quite a while for
your machine to fail on something like this, but all nonvolatile flash style ram
suffers from this, and I'm sure there will be a radio shack replacement part for
$1 by the time it fails.  Alesis QS series have this problem in aces, since you
have to reburn the entire card every time.

Andre

-----Original Message-----
From: ->Nobody<- [mailto:poumtschak@...]
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 2:29 PM
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [xl7] Flash RAM life expectancy?


From the OS 2 manual addendum:
"Because Flash RAM has a finite number of write operations before
it goes bad, the Command Station will not allow you to manually compact
when there is more than 100K bytes of compacted memory remaining."

This got me *really* worried.

How many read/write cycles will the Flash RAM endure before it fails
and make a Command Station unusable? Will a XX-7 be still usable 10
years from now without having to seek for replacement parts, or is it
just a disposable synth? Floppies were cool after all...

And still no function to SWAP tracks inside a pattern in OS 2.0 for,
say, timing priority purpose?

Oh well... Thanks anyway. :)
--
Sebastien,
-=-=-=-=-=
And the only thing the Borg left was this Macintosh...


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