osa Posted January 26, 2020 Report Share Posted January 26, 2020 (edited) from when i first received my nova i had been using transcend 128gb cards as my primary and 32gb cards as my mirror. a primary internal hard drive of sorts. just recently i started getting "no primary drive" error messages on startup even though the cards seemed to work fine and supported in the manual. 2x 128gb cards on hand both reformatted still say "no primary drive". had a 64gb Delkin which i know is not recommended but left over from sound devices recorders. it formatted fine and eliminated the message. I just ordered a sandisk 64gb CF to test officially. Has anyone else experienced any similar issues? my gut feeling is 128gb is too much card at least for my particular unit. would like to try a sandisk 128gb card if anyone else is having success. -Ken current cards: Transcend 800x 120mb/s udma7 128gb Edited January 27, 2020 by osa Current card info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivanovich Posted January 27, 2020 Report Share Posted January 27, 2020 I just got the Nova about two weeks ago. When it first arrived I didn't have any CF cards that were the recommended size, so I used some Sandisc Extreme Pro 256GB that I have and use with one of my cameras. I installed two of them for the Primary and Mirror slots and started using them. In the meantime I ordered some more 'normal' sized audio cards in the 32GB-64GB vicinity but have not installed them. Still running the 256's with no problems. At first I did record tests using 6-tracks and recording at different intervals. I let it go for 20mins, then another take for 40mins, then 60mins, and then 1.5 hrs. There were no issues so I figured they're ok running it. Then I went on a job where we had one take that was 3.5hrs with 8 tracks and it went by very smoothly. No issues whatsoever. When I did first format the primary card it told me it was going to be 30 minutes which I thought was insane. This is my first Zaxcom recorder and all of my other recorders format cards pretty quickly. After it finished it was fine. The mirror card formats much quicker. I kinda like the bigger cards. No issues yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howy Posted January 28, 2020 Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 Some people are having a problem with certain 128GB cards showing up. I bought a Sandisk extreme 128G (120MB/second UDMA7) card and it works fine. I need to get hold of a card that does not work so I can see what is happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Todd Posted January 28, 2020 Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 Sandisk words fine. It's Transcend Cards that are problematic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osa Posted January 28, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 1 hour ago, howy said: Some people are having a problem with certain 128GB cards showing up. I bought a Sandisk extreme 128G (120MB/second UDMA7) card and it works fine. I need to get hold of a card that does not work so I can see what is happening. hey howy i will gladly send you one of these transcends to support the cause. I am switching to sandisk for now and staying with 64gb will get a larger size down the road since it seems others are having success Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze Frias Posted February 5, 2020 Report Share Posted February 5, 2020 On 1/28/2020 at 3:48 PM, Jason Todd said: Sandisk words fine. It's Transcend Cards that are problematic. Interesting. Both of my Transcend 128GBs are working fine in my Nova. I probably will upgrade to Sandisk 256GBs eventuall just to have more space in my "internal drive". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osa Posted February 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2020 2 hours ago, Ze Frias said: Interesting. Both of my Transcend 128GBs are working fine in my Nova. I probably will upgrade to Sandisk 256GBs eventuall just to have more space in my "internal drive". curious if your are 800x 120mb/s udma7 like mine? Hopefully howy has his hands on mine and might help determine something good or bad. So far sandisk has been solid in my machine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze Frias Posted February 5, 2020 Report Share Posted February 5, 2020 5 hours ago, osa said: curious if your are 800x 120mb/s udma7 like mine? Hopefully howy has his hands on mine and might help determine something good or bad. So far sandisk has been solid in my machine They are the 800x versions, which I think were the lowest speed they would do at that capacity at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivanovich Posted February 6, 2020 Report Share Posted February 6, 2020 the 256gb ExtremePro Sandisc cards are rock solid so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prahlad Strickland Posted February 12, 2020 Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 Hows the mirror speeds on the Nova, is it painfully slow like Maxx and Nomad?, on movies I was never able to mirror in time for scene switches, had to hook them up with zaxconvert, the DIT's never liked it, but got used to it. Hoping the Nova is practical with this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osa Posted February 12, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2020 sent my cards to howy and he ran some tests. apparently he came up with a good fix for others having trouble. amazing www.zaxcomftp.com/fileshare/software/Nova_v1.75C.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Norflus Posted February 13, 2020 Report Share Posted February 13, 2020 19 hours ago, Prahlad Strickland said: Hows the mirror speeds on the Nova, is it painfully slow like Maxx and Nomad?, on movies I was never able to mirror in time for scene switches, had to hook them up with zaxconvert, the DIT's never liked it, but got used to it. Hoping the Nova is practical with this It continuously mirrors in real time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harwhit Posted March 17, 2020 Report Share Posted March 17, 2020 Anecdotal but I have had mirror aborted show up on long rolls in reality multiple times in the last few weeks. When I switch back to continuous it can sometimes get to 88% and then abort again. Running 2.03 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osa Posted March 18, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2020 On 3/16/2020 at 9:34 PM, harwhit said: Anecdotal but I have had mirror aborted show up on long rolls in reality multiple times in the last few weeks. When I switch back to continuous it can sometimes get to 88% and then abort again. Running 2.03 What cards were you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harwhit Posted April 21, 2020 Report Share Posted April 21, 2020 On 3/17/2020 at 10:52 PM, osa said: What cards were you using? Transcend 32GB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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