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As there are ways of remotely transferring files and starting prints, an SD card or USB flash drive is the most common and reliable way to get your files to your machine. Though common and convenient, flash memory is not the most reliable in itself and your storage can be corrupted or fill up without any obvious signs. Therefore, we have put together a small guide on how to maintain, format, and purchase memory for your Original Prusa printer.
The SD card has a latch on the side. Before using your SD card, make sure that the latch is not set to the Locked position. In case it is locked, you will not be able to save files on the card, and the printer will not be able to open the SD card.
There is no upper size limit on compatible storage media, but the built-in Windows formatting tool does not support formatting storage media from a size of 32 GB or more to FAT32. It will only provide the option for exFAT, which is currently not supported by our printers. There are similar limitations under various versions of Apple's OSx, where a third-party application must be used to format it correctly.
To format such a drive you need a third-party application, like Rufus, FAT32 format, or EaseUS Partition Master. Be careful when using such programs so you do not accidentally format the wrong storage media, like your hard drive. However, 8-16 GB is more than enough for most use cases, as a G-code file rarely exceeds 100 MB.
If your SD card or USB drive is full or if you can't read the content of the drive, but the drive is recognized by windows, most often all you need to do is to format the drive.
On Windows, this is very simple. Locate your USB drive or SD card in my computer, right-click, and choose format.
A new small window will pop up. Most of the time you can simply leave everything to default, but the most important thing is that the File System is set to FAT32. This and the Volume Label (Name of the drive) is the only thing you want to touch here. Click Start and your drive will be formatted in a matter of seconds.
On Mac, it is a few more steps, but still very accessible. Again, you want to choose FAT32 as your file system, but you also have the option of changing the "partitioning scheme", which should always be MBR (Master Boot Record).
macOS Big Sur 11.6
macOS Big Sur 11.6
macOS Big Sur 11.6
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1. Open terminal. Run this command:
diskutil list
2. Identify the disk that matches the flash drive and unmount it (replace 'disk8' with whatever disk you need)
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk8
3. Run this command to reformat it (The MBR format is what you'll miss if you format another way)
eraseDisk FAT32 PRUSA3D MBRFormat /dev/disk8
Don't forget diskUtil, otherwise it will not find the command. At least for me it did. After that it worked. Thank you!
Když chci tisknout nějaký gcode, tak je tiskárna ani nevidí, včetně složek.
Prostě musím vždy při zapnutí/restartnutí odpojit flashku, aby to naběhlo.
Bootloader 2.3.4
Firmware 5.1.2+13478
Kdo poradí? Děkuji všem!
Hi! To update the firmware from 4.0.5, try this: First update to 4.3.4. Then, update to 4.4.0 (use BOTH .bbf files. Then, update to the latest 5.xx version. (select the bbf file with the language selection you prefer).
To start the update, insert the USB drive with the corresponding firmware file/ files, restart the printer and keep clicking the encoder wheel until the printer shows the FW update screen.
Update to 4.3.4
then update to 4.4.0
then update to 6.2.4 (for me).
I used a reformatted (to 32FAT) drive instead of the included one.
Thanks for posting the info!
Dobrý den, je možné, že se něco pokazilo při zápisu na flashku a systém ji pak vyhodnotil jako poškozenou. Osobně jsem to u nás nezažil a to mi rukama prošly desítky kusů. Nicméně, pokud by se to stalo znovu napište na podporu a kolegové na to kouknou :)