Bank unavailable

wrongsignals · 2014-07-02T11:22:35.000Z

yeah i just did that. im thinking they may say its the cf cards fault.

Vasil_Tomayanev · 2017-03-15T18:33:04.242Z

Hi for the second time I’ve got the same problem,when i turn on the octatrack show me wrong cheksum,I’ve done "save as new projekt and it worked apart from the first time where there was missing samples from the projekt sample slot list.Sins the first problem I’ve change the cf card.If anyone have an idea what’s wrong please write.

Rusty · 2016-03-04T19:31:15.000Z

[quote=““Vasil Tomayanev””]
Hi for the second time I’ve got the same problem,when i turn on the octatrack show me wrong cheksum,I’ve done "save as new projekt and it worked apart from the first time where there was missing samples from the projekt sample slot list.Sins the first problem I’ve change the cf card.If anyone have an idea what’s wrong please write.
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Somewhere along the line an error has occured in one or more of the banks, and the checksum has failed, thus makng the bank unavailable. After loading, you should be able to choose to proceed, and the banks that are unavailable will be displayed with falshing led when you hold down the Bank button. Attempting to select one of these banks will give you a ‘Bank is Unavaailable’ message.

There are a number of reasons as to why this may occur.

If your stuff is important to use, send me a pm, and I might be able to sort it out for you.

PS: What OS version is the Octatrack on?

Vasil_Tomayanev · 2016-03-04T20:33:11.000Z

Os 1.25h i believe the latest one

Vasil_Tomayanev · 2016-03-04T20:38:11.000Z

Dont bother projekt is not so important what is more important for me is ,i whant to avoid this problem in future when I’ll be more advanced,thanks anyway i appreciate for you help will keep you in touch if it continues.Cheers!

otherfires · 2017-03-15T18:34:45.845Z

Hi, I recently bought an OT second-hand on ebay in mint condition. After learning the basics I created my own project, loaded my own samples and made some patterns, used different banks and parts. But now when I switch on the OT I get the following message:

SOME ERRORS OCCURED! ‘WRONG CHECKSUM’ DO YOU WANT TO ABORT LOADING THIS PROJECT?

When I load the project it won’t let me access some of the banks I’ve created, specifically Bank 1 from what I can tell, and comes up with the message BANK UNAVAILABLE. From reading online, and there isn’t much coming up on this error, it seems it may be a problem with the compact flash card, but quite a few people said it is an issue with the OT and they returned it to Elektron. Has anyone had this error or know anything about it?

Cheers, Tim

wrongsignals · 2014-09-03T17:19:20.000Z

Yeah im in the same position. Has done that to me. I want to use this a live gigging machine but the possibility of it being flakey is , er, a bit shit

van · 2014-09-03T18:17:40.000Z

try with “save to new”! and try to open the new saved project.

otherfires · 2014-09-03T18:54:26.000Z

Thanks Van that’s totally fixed it! What do you think caused it? Have got the latest OS installed and thought it was odd that there wasn’t much info about it online.

van · 2014-09-03T20:23:27.000Z

""otherfires"":

Thanks Van that’s totally fixed it! What do you think caused it? Have got the latest OS installed and thought it was odd that there wasn’t much info about it online.

I’m glad i could help!
i don’t know what’s the problem with that, but sometimes when you travel and gig it just happens…
anyway it’s nice to have a escape solution

@ELEKTRON <= do you have take notice about this issue?

Rusty · 2014-09-03T21:24:57.000Z

""otherfires"":

Thanks Van that’s totally fixed it! What do you think caused it? Have got the latest OS installed and thought it was odd that there wasn’t much info about it online.

I can replicate that error very easily, though why it occurs internally, I have no idea.

The Octatrack is calculating a checksum to verify the project. This checksum is likewise utilised when reloading the project to ensure that it is a valid project, all addresses match etc.

If the checksum does not verify on loading, then you will see the error message that you saw, and the Bank button will be lit green i[/i] and trying to select it will give you the “Bank Not Available” error message.

Given what I know of the above, I would suggest that there is error in the way that the calculation works on saving, versus the way the calculation works on loading, but generally these should always be the same logic.

Quick suggestion as to why it works when saving to a new project, versus existing, would be around Saving is performing a check… Saving to New" is forcing a new checksum…

tl:dr: Buggy code.

van · 2014-09-04T08:06:34.000Z

""Rusty"":

tl:dr: Buggy code.

yepp…

otherfires · 2014-09-04T18:01:18.000Z

Thanks for your thoughts Rusty! It’s a bit strange that it happened to the first few projects that I created rather than just one. I’ve fixed them all now using the save to new option but it’s a little unsettling really, though not losing hours of work is super fantastic so can’t complain really. Bit surprised there would be a bug like this given that my OT is updated to the latest OS, but then again I’ve only been using it for a couple of weeks so what do I know. Would definitely like to know what Elektron makes of this issue.

bambrose · 2014-09-15T21:06:29.000Z

Now THAT’s a workaround that should be in the manual…

pmi · 2017-03-15T18:35:38.764Z

Turned on the Octatrack today and I get this message “Some errors occurred! ‘Wrong Checksum’ Do you want to abort loading this project?” If I don’t abort bank 1 is unavailable. Has anyone run into this kind of issue before. I’m using a pretty good Sandisk CF disk so I don’t think that caused the corruption but who knows.

Rusty · 2016-06-27T22:07:09.710Z

Yep, and I can fix that. Or try Saving as a new Project and see if that helps.

Theres a bug(s) in the Octatrack’s OS which will cause an illegal checksumin certain scenarios, and that is the end result you have.

PM me if you want me to fix it for you.

pmi · 2016-06-28T03:33:57.430Z

Seems like this corrupted Octatrack project puts my Finder into a loop. Can’t force quit or kill Finder. Tried repair with disk utility but no luck.

Rusty · 2016-06-28T03:49:07.669Z

Wrong Checksum; Corrupted bank

Seems like this corrupted Octatrack project puts my Finder into a loop. Can’t force quit or kill Finder.

Don’t quite understand what you mean by that? On OSX? On the Octatrack?

On the Octatrack, it shouldn’t do that, as it should only warn, and if continue, make that bank unavailable. Just create a new Project.

Wrong Checksum; Corrupted bank

Tried repair with disk utility but no luck.

In your OS / On the CF card? That will do fuck all… It’s not a card problem as I outlined above.

pmi · 2016-06-28T03:52:55.566Z

I meant in OSX. I can’t even get the project set to open without crashing my Finder.

Rusty · 2016-06-28T03:59:53.978Z

Wrong Checksum; Corrupted bank

I meant in OSX. I can’t even get the project set to open without crashing my Finder.

Yeah, that could be a card issue, which could also manifest as a checksum issue… as it’s failed to write correctly…

Tried turning it off and back on again?

Else, diffrent computer, try archiving the folder from the root, then renamine the source, and then extracting to place it in a different location on the card, and stuff, and things, etc