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Hey guys'n'gals...I've a friend who has a ROLAND JX-305 that he need a memory card(s) for...I do know they take SMARTMEDIA 5v cards which are now outta production from what I gather, but was wondering for anyone who knows...Some people have told me only ROLAND ones will work and others have told me that any SMARTMEDIA 5v cards will work...

Any thoughts?...Cheers, DOM!

The JX-305 uses either SmartMedia S2m-5 (2Mb) + S4m-5 (4Mb). Any cards other than Roland's will work.

Thanks man...Much obliged I'll let him know...Also, would it be a possability to load the info from keys to the card then from the card to some other current memory card for storage then when he wanted the info again go from the current card to the smartcard back into the keys?...Hope I made sence...

Not sure I'm following... You mean copy the smartcard to another storage device? Like to CD-R and then back again to the smartcard? (that way preventing to have to buy a lot of smartcards). If so, sure you can do it. You just need a smartcard reader attached to a computer and it's like any other media. Same with other smartcard-like cards. You need a "universal reader-writer" and the appropriate software (usually supplied with the reader-writer).

That gizmo is available in every electronic shops, camero shops, etc.