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Robox is coming with CD card slot and I’ve got mine with 4GB card in it. But when I tried to read it in my Mac I’m getting that card is not ‘initialised’ (formatted). Does anyone know what format it should be in? Or is it special Robox format? Has anyone successfully used SD card to print anything with Robox and what is the process?
I am asking for no particular reason - I am just curious by nature…
@clicky
The SD card is where the Robox stores the prints while it is printing. This enables the printer to be disconnected from the computer. Don’t remove it, don’t format it, and don’t mess with it in your computer. If you do, you will have to get a replacement card from CEL. And be very careful putting it back in, now that you have taken it out. If you don’t get it lined up right, it will fall into the interior of the Robox and you will have to take the cover off to get it out.
I operate two Betas and four Production Robox.
I am the US/Canada Technical Support engineer for the Robox.
See my 3D Hub site at https://www.3dhubs.com/phoenix/hubs/ben@cbhudson that sounds if you are speaking from experience!
Ehm… Not really. I *DID* lose it - wanted to take it with me to work and it fell off my pocket next to car seat. Fortunately I did find it eventually.
But, in the mean time I just stuck any other SD card I had with me to the printer and it didn’t complain at all! I’ll return original card back in, but I am puzzled *how* printer stores data to SD card. It looks like it just writes raw sectors on it or it has its own filesystem. Or I am missing something… Hm…
@clicky it has a special file system. I think it is Linux based, but I don’t know the details on it. There were several people who wrecked their cards early on; maybe the format changed or the software is more forgiving now.
I operate two Betas and four Production Robox.
I am the US/Canada Technical Support engineer for the Robox.
See my 3D Hub site at https://www.3dhubs.com/phoenix/hubs/benCool! Thanks! I’ll have a more closed look using Linux then. Since it automatically formatted (my working theory now) the other card, I can have a look at this one…
Hello
i have a probleme with my sd card.
the transfer .stl is ok but after 10 - 15 minuts print , i have ” error Card sd , verified if your card is installed ” it is not the same text (im french )
i try with other file .stl and many time with the same file . The problem is the same all the time
i try remove and replace the card , but no work , same problem !
problem with card ?
sorry for my bad english
@delirium07 you should create a support ticket http://www.cel-robox.com/support/
The Robox SD card has its own file system, you wouldnt be able to read it using any OS apart from Robox, unless you are a 1337 h4x0r… it was written by our firmware engineer, he wears bike shorts in the office so is clearly some kind of genius.
Robox will format a compatible SD card when you insert it, you will loose other data. If you insert one which is already Robox formatted it will not be altered.
Resurrecting this thread, I switched on my Robox for the first time in a couple of months this morning, and it steadfastly refused to recognise the Micro SD card.
It was working fine last time I used it, so I have no idea what caused it to go bye-bye. The card is now utterly unusable, refusing to be recognised even for a low-level format by OS X or Linux.
After filing a ticket and checking with Lee, I bunged in the only spare I could find — a bit of a waste of 64GB, I reckon — and it’s now working.
So, bizarre things happen to Micro SD cards while they’re doing nothing, apparently…
@gid The most common source of issues for me with SD cards is surge/electrical damage. For some reason they seem to be especially sensitive to this. It may be worth unplugging the Robox from power and USB if you aren’t going to be using it often.
I operate two Betas and four Production Robox.
I am the US/Canada Technical Support engineer for the Robox.
See my 3D Hub site at https://www.3dhubs.com/phoenix/hubs/benYep, I’d usually agree. However, the Robox and the computer it’s plugged into are on a good-quality UPS (APC brand), so I doubt it was an external surge. I think it might have been powering on the Robox itself.
*shrug*
It’s not like SD cards cost much money nowadays! 🙂
@gid I doubt it was powering on the Robox. It is probably the SD card itself. I have yet to lose one in my printers, but they are all on surge protectors or battery backups and they don’t get unplugged much. Maybe just a bad SD card. I have had those happen; I lost a SanDisk in my phone. It just stopped working.
I operate two Betas and four Production Robox.
I am the US/Canada Technical Support engineer for the Robox.
See my 3D Hub site at https://www.3dhubs.com/phoenix/hubs/ben
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