Viewing hard disk drive information

You can view the information on the hard disk 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 143).

2 Connect the hard disk drive to the unit via USB 2.0.

3 Press the THUMBNAIL button to display the thumbnail screen.

4 Press the THUMBNAIL MENU button and select HDD

EXPLORE from the thumbnail menu. The screen provides the information about the hard disk 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 disk drive. The available functions depend on the type of hard disk drive.

HDD type

Feature

Available functions

 

 

 

TYPE S

A special format that

Thumbnail viewing,

 

allows high-speed

writing and writing back

 

writing and writing back

on a card basis, writing

 

on a card-by-card basis.

back on a clip basis, and

 

A drive formatted with

formatting

 

the unit uses this format.

 

 

 

 

P2STORE

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 disk drive

Thumbnail viewing,

 

with the first primary

reading on a clip basis,

 

partition formatted in

and formatting

 

FAT16 or FAT32, as

* Once formatted, the

 

seen on PC, etc., which

hard disk drive can be

 

requires a CONTENTS

treated as a TYPE S

 

directory at its root.

HDD.

 

 

 

OTHER

Hard disk drives not

Formatting

 

described above.

* Once formatted, they

 

* They are hard disk

can be treated as a

 

drives that have no

TYPE S HDD.

 

CONTENTS directory

 

 

or use the NTFS and

 

 

any other file system

 

 

instead of FAT16 or

 

 

FAT32.

 

 

 

 

2.VENDOR

This section indicates the vendor for the hard disk drive.

3.MODEL

This section indicates the model of the hard disk drive.

4.SIZE

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

5.USED

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

6.REMAIN

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

7.NO.

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

Note

The screen indicates up to 10 partitions. When the number of partitions exceeds 10, scroll down the indication with the cursor button (V) to view the hidden partitions.

144 Connection with external device: Connection with external devices using the USB 2.0 port