Fostex PD204 owner manual 115, Making dual drive recording

Chapter 6: Advanced operations

8)Pressing the [EXIT] key repeatedly to exit the MENU mode.

After exiting the MENU mode, the display returns to the Home screen of the formatted partition (PT02, in this procedure example), while the unit scans the mirror disk.

On the Home screen of a DDR-formatted partition, "" flashes.

Making dual drive recording

The following procedure is assumed that the selected partition (PT02) is “DDR” formatted and a mirror disk is set to the DVD multi drive.

<Note>: To execute dial drive recording, you must set a mirror disk to the DVD-RAM disk drive. If a wrong disk is set to the DVD-RAM disk drive or no disk is set, the PD204 detects an error when scanning the mirror disk, and shows a caution message (“Difference! DDR mirror disk”, etc). When it scans a correct mirror disk, “Presence! DDR mirror disk” is shown.

<Note>: When starting dual drive recording, if the current drive is “Normal” formatted, switch to a “DDR” formatted hard disk partition and set a mirror disk to the DVD-RAM drive.

On the screen for selecting a drive, “DDR” is placed on the right of the name of the “DDR” formatted partition. So you can easily distinguish them.

1)Slide the [REC] key to start recording to the partition.

Dual drive recording starts.

The PD204 also make recording to the mirror disk in the background, as well as recording to partition 2 (“PT02”).

2)After completing recording, press the [PAUSE] key to stop recording.

If recording has not been successfully made, immediately cancel by the “False start” function and make recording again.

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