Viewing hard disc drive information

You can view the information on the hard disc drive connected via USB 2.0 with the following steps.

1 Switch the mode to USB HOST. For more information, see [Switching to the USB HOST mode] (page 132).

2 Connect the hard disc drive to the camera-recorder via USB 2.0.

3 Press the thumbnail button to display the thumbnail screen.

4 Press the MENU button and select HDD > EXPLORE from the thumbnail menu. The screen provides the information about the hard disc drive.

For Type S or P2 STORE

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EXIT button: ;Press the set button.

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For the FAT

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1.PARTITION

This section indicates the type of the hard disc drive. The available functions depend on the type of hard disc drive.

HDD type

Feature

Available functions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TYPE S

A special format that

Thumbnail viewing,

 

 

 

allows high-speed writ-

writing and writing back

 

 

 

ing and writing back on

on a card basis, writing

 

 

 

a card-by-card basis. A

back on a clip basis, and

 

 

 

drive formatted with the

formatting

 

 

 

camera-recorder uses

 

 

 

 

this format.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P2 STORE

P2 STORE (AJ-

Thumbnail viewing,

 

 

 

PCS060G). No writing

writing back on a card

 

 

 

can be performed.

basis, and writing back

 

 

 

 

on a clip basis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FAT

For a hard disc drive

Thumbnail viewing,

 

 

 

with the first primary

reading on a clip basis,

 

 

 

 

 

partition formatted in

and formatting

 

Connection

 

its root.

*Once formatted, the

 

 

FAT 16 or 32, as seen

 

 

 

on personal computers,

hard disc drive can be

 

 

 

etc., which requires a

treated as a TYPE-S

 

 

 

CONTENTS directory at

HDD.

 

 

 

 

 

 

with

OTHER

Hard disc drives not

Formatting

 

 

 

 

described above.

* Once formatted, they

 

external

 

* They are hard disc

can be treated as a

 

 

 

 

 

drives that have no

TYPE-S HDD.

 

 

 

CONTENTS directory or

 

 

 

 

use the NTFS and any

 

 

device

 

other file system instead

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

of FAT 16 or 32.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.VENDOR

This section indicates the vendor for the hard disc drive.

3.MODEL

This section indicates the model of the hard disc drive.

4.SIZE

This section indicates the total storage on the hard disc drive.

5.USED

This section indicates the used space on the hard disc drive (in GB) and the number of P2 cards in use.

6.REMAIN

This section indicates the remaining free space on the hard disc drive in GB.

7.PARTITION #

This section indicates the partition number (one P2 card is used as a unit) on the hard disc drive.

‹Note

The screen indicates up to 10 partitions. When the

number of partitions exceeds 10, scroll down the indi- cation with the cursor button ($) to view the hidden

partitions.

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