Now those are BIG pictures!!

Good detail... thanks!

Not sure what to say about the backup cd, except that there can be many things at play. many of which nobody understands the reasons for.

Have you tried putting the ide drive back in and burning a cd-r backup using the same batch of cd's yet?

Oops...I left out part of the story: I had two sets recorded, one just over an hour and one of about 40 min. Each on it's own CF card. The long set incurred the failure, but the other one burned fine.

I was expecting the backup for the long set to take more than one disc, but it never checked before it started writing. I don't frequently use backup mode and my primary reference is VS Recorder Power. There might be a wrinkle with backing=up the VSR, so I'll hit its book to ensure I'm doing the right stuff.

If I was you... I'd use Song Split to break up the long set into two parts (which you could later use Song Combine to stick back together if needed). This way, you'll completely avoid all the potential pitfalls of the multi-cd backup, which can be a painful ordeal. Try to keep each backup cd its own entity and you'll likely have more success.

If you don't know Song Split, let me know and I can write out a tutorial for you. It's not difficult, but works better if you test it out first to see how it handles splits.

If your only aim is to get the song onto the pc and convert to .wav files, or work on the song in reaper from the .dll import, why not just open the file from the CF card using an adapter to USB on the PC?

If you feel you need a cd-r backup that you can re-import to the VS at some later date, then I'd still suggest using song split to reduce the size of each portion of the song to something less than one full cd-r (less than 700MB per split) to avoid the pitfalls that can and sometimes do happen to multi-cd backups.

It was just a suggestion.

If your only aim is to get the song onto the pc and convert to .wav files, or work on the song in reaper from the .dll import, why not just open the file from the CF card using an adapter to USB on the PC?

Has anyone ever tried something like this?

http://shop.transcendusa.com/product/ItemDetail.asp?ItemID=TS4GSSD25-S

Was wondering if it works, I currently use the CF adapter.

Thanks

Has anyone used the new software from the BOSS BR-900CD and BR-800. I assume these recorders use the same recordingformats (still). Does this converter software recognise the VSR mode files?

Has anyone used the new software from the BOSS BR-900CD and BR-800. I assume these recorders use the same recordingformats (still). Does this converter software recognise the VSR mode files?

I don't have a clue about DIF-AT hardware, so can't even guess there for you.

The PC does NOT make use of the VS file format.... as has always been true.

Using the CF card to USB adapter at the PC side makes it an alternative to using a SCSI PCI card, or any other configuration one might have worked out that includes the SCSI-to-PC connection.

I have not tried loading a VS song directly into Reaper from a CF card, so I can't answer to that.

However, using the CF card allows me to extract .wav files using VSWE and thereby avoiding the extra step of writing CD-R back-ups of the VS songs.

You'd do yourself a favor by reading up more on this subject before spending money and going down a blind alley.

I know you've been around here quite awhile, so please don't take my suggestions in the wrong way..... but expect that people here have offered this advice many times over. Do them right by reading your share of info and get acquainted with the subject a bit more.

Hope whatever you decide works out great for you. It's fantastic that we've been able to stretch the life of our VS' so much further thanks to some great work by bear, danielo and randygo.