Background first
We have a Tascam DM4800 digital mixer. The CF storage card unit has died and after careful troubleshooting and inspection of the unit and cables, I think there is a problem with the CF card board itself. The easy stuff has been checked - no bent pins, no loose cables, we tried three new CF cards (all 2GB). For several months we have gone back and forth with Tascam service in CA. The short story is that replacement parts for the mixer's CF board are no longer available and it's not clear even if it can be serviced, repaired at the component level, or replaced.
The big problem is that this CF card unit is required for the memory and library to work with this mixer so without it, there's no preset library and no automation recording/playback. We'd really prefer to not scrap the mixer for this one board's malfunction.
The questions
Does anyone know of a hack for the CF card board that would convert it from CF card to either USB flash drive, SD card, or some other replacement storage so that we can get the DM4800 working again? Is there an Arduino project here, maybe?
All help is welcome.
Thanks.
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