Fostex PD204 owner manual 104, Selecting a partition, Back ground mode

Chapter 6: Advanced operations

Auto copy function

When recording to an audio file on a partition of the PD204 hard disk drive, the auto copy function automatically copies the same audio file to a DVD-RAM disk. You can select the auto copy mode from the following two auto copy modes.

	Copy recording to a DVD-RAM disk is executed simultaneously when recording to a
	hard disk partition. The recording size of a take is limited to the capacity of the hard
Immediately mode disk partition or DVD-RAM disk.
	<Note>: In this mode, if no DVD-RAM disk is set, the PD204 cancels the auto copy
	mode and returns to the normal recording mode.
	Immediately after the PD204 ends recording to the partition and stops, the copy
	starts.
Back ground mode	In this mode, even if no DVD-RAM disk is set when starting recording, you can start
	copying by setting a disk later.

<Note>: If you turn off the PD204 before setting a DVD-RAM disk, the copy data is erased.

<Note>: While the auto copy mode is “On” and a DVD-RAM disk is set to the DVD multi drive, if the partition you are going to record to is formatted in the “DDR” mode (for dual drive recording), dual recording takes priority to auto copy.

<Note>: Editing the name or meta data of the file on the partition does not reflect to the data on the DVD-RAM disk.

<Note>: Auto copy cannot be canceled by False start.

Selecting a partition

Select a partition to which audio data is recorded.

1)While the unit is stopped, press the [SHIFT] key to light [SHIFT] indicator, followed by the [FILE SEL/DRV.PAT] key.

The display shows the “DRIVE SEL” screen. On this screen, “DVD” represents the DVD multi drive, while “PT01” through “PT16” represent the hard disk partition.

	FILE SEL
SHIFT	DRV,PAT.

<Note>: You can also bring up the "DRIVE SEL" screen by the procedure below.

1)While the unit is stopped, press the [SHIFT] key to light [SHIFT] indicator, followed by the [ENTER/YES] key.

2)Use the [MENU] dial to select “DRV/PAT SEL” and press the [ENTER/YES] key.

The display now shows the “DRIVE SEL” screen.

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