Anyone have any details on just what type of card is required in the CR344 controller? Or even better, where to get one.
I purchased a generic PCMCIA TYPE I 512kb SRAM from PRETEC, but the controller won't format it.
The battery in the card is good and the "write protect" is off.
So, that's the limit of what I can think of.
If I remember right, there used to be a limit in the size of the card that you could use. Also, for some reason Leica equipment only seemed at that time to like the Leica OEM cards.
I may have a few lying around. I will look for you.
Matt
My Leica DNA03 level won't recognize a PCMCIA card larger than 32MB.
The manual I have says 512kb or 2 meg,
I went with the 512kb because it was cheap.
I figured if I needed more space I could always get the 2 meg later.
The controller just flashes "please wait" for hours after I select format card.
I'm really hoping it's a card issue and not the controller.
I seem to remember that on the Leica System 1200, the cards were sandisk. Hopefully that may fix your problem.
I remember my dealer telling me, if I needed to get a new card, to make sure it was a high speed card. The card that came with my controller was a Leica card.
Doug
Original card was a Verbatim 2 mb card (32M1LCDATA13515C5) and was an 8 bit card, if I remember correctly.
Searches seem to go to AU or NZ on the internet.
I use 2 MB Verbatim cards in my old Leica Robot with no problem. I do format them in the instrument. I haven't had any problems with other brands either.
My problem is reading them into my computer, I have an old laptop runnung Win 98 that I use. The newer O/S's don't like PCMCIA cards.
T.W.
The 300 system could use the CR333 or CR344 controllers, the CR333 could not be used for RTK. The CR344 will take the SRAM card and will take up to a 32 meg Flash card. I have used the compact flash card with an adapter, for some reason I could never get the controller to format the flash card but had no problem formatting them on the computer then use them on the controller. From time to time I would have to format a SRAM card on the computer also. Reading the SRAM card into the computer will be a problem, most pcmcia slots on computers now days only read FLASH cards. The solution to that is to get an Omni Drive, kinda costly but will save lots of frustration, they read both flash and SRAM cards. I have used several different SRAM cards, Leica, SanDisk, Member Club, Envoy Data and one card that doesn't have a name. Never had any problems with any of the cards. I have on occasion not been able to format on the controller and would do it on a computer and the controller had no problems with that. I have several of the Envoy Data cards, I'm not sure they have them anymore though. I have a couple of card readers from them also but they only read SRAM, when I got a 530 system and use flash on that system and on a Leica Robot system 1103, I decided to get the Omni Drive card reader, it uses the USB interface so it is mobile, the Omni Drive uses the USB as a power source so there is no call for a transformer for it's use. On the 300 system I have, the SRAM cards I have are 2MB maximum, the sensors are both 399 and 9500. If you can't format on a computer it is most likely FLASH only, find an old laptop running windows 98 and it will most likely be SRAM. Another problem might be the battery in the SRAM card, they last a long time but they do go bad.
Our units use a Sharp CE-AF05 10 mb flash card.
Hope that helps.