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Hi Eric,

Thanks for your reply. My research ended up bringing me to similar conclusions, specifically the "low level format" solution on some forum. I tried using , but it didn't help... so it might necessitate a hardware solution. I found some other clues but it seems very complicated, so I might just cut my losses and focus on making music.

Bill,

Probably just a bad card, you might find getting another one on eBay makes the issues totally go away.

Generally speaking a 128mb card is the max but that size is more prone for issues on a QY (including *potentially* slower reads and writes) so I usually play it safe and go with a 32mb card since that is still a HUGE amount of storage for MIDI/QY files (since MIDI/QY are generally very, very small) and 32mb cards are pretty cheap.

On the other hand, in my RS7K I use a 128mb XD card with a XD-> Smartmedia adaptor and it has always worked flawlessly (and the bigger size is needed due to ability to load samples).

I had been meaning to try the combo on the QY, but I never bothered since I have so many 32mb, 16mb, and 8mb cards for the QY100...so storage has never been an issue.

Cheers,
Eric





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The Yamaha QY70 / Yamaha QY100 User Group ( /g/YamahaQY70AndQY100 ) - A forum for the best band in a box synthesizer/sequencers ever created on the planet earth.

Favorite Quote(s):
"The longest journey starts with the first step." - Lao Tzu

Hmm, that's a good point, I'll try getting a 32Mb card too.

I can still read and format the 128Mb card in Windows and Linux, though, and from what I read in my research, it's common that the USB readers corrupt some sort of layer and make it unreadable on devices like cameras. I ended up ordering a Microtech CameraMate, they are one of four readers that don't corrupt the card, and they can be used to do the low-level format. Apparently, it has to be done on Windows 2000, though... to be continued.

Update on this for reference. It's not a full step-by-step because there are many floating variables. I've had to resort to using Archive.org a lot to track down the correct info and files, I felt like a detective.

I ordered the MicroTech USB CameraMate reader on eBay. It's possible to use Sandisk SDDR-09 or MicroTech ZiO!, whatever's available.
I then installed Windows 98SE on VirtualBox 6.0, there are plenty of tutorials online on how to to that, along with the Extension Pack to enable USB, I used a Windows 7 host computer, the Linux machine wouldn't detect the reader, and I had issues with the Windows 10 installation. The Windows 7 machine was running on an Intel which might be better for virtualization. To get the Windows 98SE virtual install to communicate with its host, I needed to set up Folder Sharing from within Win98SE, and share a folder that would show up in the Win7 host. This folder was used to transfer the files needed for fixing the card from Win7 to Win98. The first issue was installing the reader as the default driver that was on the CD did not work with the smprep.exe "fix". The driver is called

Once the driver is installed and you can read your card (it will say that it needs to be formatted), use smprep.exe to fix and format the card, then reformat in the QY100 as per the user manual. .


I found around 80 tracks that were made by the person who owned the unit before me. They're mostly old rock classics with that karaoke vibe, so mostly interesting for educational purposes.