FLASH CARD INFORMATION
BMS
uses a standard SD-HC Flash Card to storeMP3 based Music and
Messages.
Each SD-HC card must be configured
to operate with BMS. This is done by
using the
Condition BGM SD Card
facility in the BMS Control Program.
CONDITION YOUR SD CARD
1. Insert the SD or SD-HC card into
your SD Card programmer.
2. Select
Condition BGM SD Card
facility in the Control Program.
The program will Format the card as FAT32 and it will also automatically create
a MUSIC FOLDER on the Flash Card, which has 16 Sub Folders numbered
from F001 to F016. The program will also automatically create a MESSAGES
folder where BMS2 and BMS3 users can save Message Announcements.
IMPORTANT NOTES
1.
Sub Folders should be reased or replaced. They should not be deleted.
2.
When reusing Flash cards, it is important that you CONDITION each Flash
card before loading replacement Music folders onto the card. This is necessary
to ERASE the file directory of the Flash Card, as Windows does not do this
and will not over write directory information when it is full. You
MUST
use the
Condition BGM SD Card
, selected from the main menu.
FLASH CARD PROGRAMMER
Your MUSIC FILES and MESSAGE FILES (BMS2 and BMS3) are transferred
to the SD-HC Flash Card using an SD flash card programmer. These Flash
Card programmers can be built into your PC, or an external unit (available from
Natcomm) that can connect to your PC via a USB port.
Flash Card programmers are treated by the PC as a Removable Hard Drive
device. Once connected to the PC, they are automatically allocated a separate
DRIVE LETTER so that you can then COPY and DELETE files to the Flash
Card inserted into this drive, just as you would do with any other Drive of your
PC.
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