madcodger Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 Hi All, I thought it might be a good idea to create a backup image of the ISY’s card, so that if something went wrong I could just drop in the backup (or, being hundreds of miles away from it, have my only neighbor do so). It seems wise to use a card that’s as close to the original as possible, but I need to order it soon and am not near the unit right now. Can anyone tell me the card size (SD, microSD, etc), memory size (8GB, 16GB, etc) and speed (e.g., C10) of the card used in an ISY 994 purchased this past summer? Thanks in advance. Link to comment
Michel Kohanim Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 @madcodger, Anything up to 32GB will work. Minimum 2GB. With kind regards, Michel Link to comment
madcodger Posted November 27, 2019 Author Share Posted November 27, 2019 22 hours ago, Michel Kohanim said: @madcodger, Anything up to 32GB will work. Minimum 2GB. With kind regards, Michel Thanks, @Michel Kohanim. I’ve never had an ISY card fail, but figure it’s a decent idea to be prepared for the worst, just in case. Link to comment
junkycosmos Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Will the ISY support a XC SD card or only the HC ? I understand the 32GB limit and I am not interested in larger size but rather fastest possible SD. I looked this AM and the fastest SanDisk A2 U3 v30 cards only come in XC (extended capacity) format at 64GB. While going to a 32GB card drops to A1. I take it the XC format is not recognized by ISY ? Link to comment
Michel Kohanim Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 @junkycosmos, We have not tested XC. With kind regards, Michel Link to comment
larryllix Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 On 11/26/2019 at 8:38 AM, madcodger said: Hi All, I thought it might be a good idea to create a backup image of the ISY’s card, so that if something went wrong I could just drop in the backup (or, being hundreds of miles away from it, have my only neighbor do so). It seems wise to use a card that’s as close to the original as possible, but I need to order it soon and am not near the unit right now. Can anyone tell me the card size (SD, microSD, etc), memory size (8GB, 16GB, etc) and speed (e.g., C10) of the card used in an ISY 994 purchased this past summer? Thanks in advance. ISY only uses 2BG of any card. I am not sure if it fragments the card at the sector level when you format the card inside ISY. Link to comment
Brian H Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 My older 04/02/2012 ISY994iPro has a 1GB SD Card and my newer 04/13/2017 ISY994i has a 4GB SD Card. Link to comment
larryllix Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 I suspect ISY uses the older FAT formatting and it can only handle 2GB max. I have been caught many times with this gottcha'. You can format the card to 16GB or whatever, but when the actual usage of the card exceeds its addressing limit of 2GB, the system crashes after running for years without a problem. 2^16 = 64K x 128 byte sectors = 2GB 2GB cards became obsolete My 8GB inserted into my ISY maxed out at 2GB reported by ISY. Sent using Tapatalk Link to comment
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