Hey guys,

I'm new here, but you seem like you have some experience working with the ISD17000 chipcorder series.

I've been having luck communicating with the chipcorder over the SPI interface; however, I'm having one BIG issue.

My PIC controls two chipcorders and while one is recording, the other one is playing back. It works fine, usually for about 5 minutes, at which point the play command continues to work, but it's no longer records. I can tell visually because I have the LED option enabled.

The only way to get it to work again is to do a hardware reset, then a hardware global erase. If I try these same commands via SPI, it doesn't work.

I guess my questions are this:

1) Has anyone see this behavior, where the "record command" (0x41) seems to just not work after a few minutes?

2) I notice that once the record stops working, the CMD_ERR bit does get set. But does this really even do any good? It tells you there's a problem but there's no way to get the thing reset and working again... except for that hardware reset / global erase thing I mentioned earlier.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thx,

Joel