Formatting disks
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Use the following procedure to format a pre-event recording area. Pre-event recording area space can be allocated for each camera channel.
• Formatting the pre-event recording area may take around 10 minutes depending on the number of cameras.
1Click the [Config.] button on the setup menu.
This will display the administrator authentication window.
2Enter the "Administrator name" and "Password", and
then click the [OK] button.
This will display the disk information window.
3On the disk config top window, click [Format].
This will display the "Format" window.
4On the sub-menu that appears, click [Pre-event
recording area].
This will display the "Pre-event recording area setting"
window.
5Select the [Pre-event recording area setting] window and
click the [Set] button.
• Create a new pre-event recording area
• Add a camera to pre-event recording areas that are
created and assign areas
This will display the "Pre-event recording area HDD setting"
window.

Pre-event recording area formatting

Important:
• When the "Config" page is displayed, all operations (recording, playback, etc.) except disc configuration stop.
• Displaying the config window forcibly logs out any other users currently logged in to the main unit. Also installing or removing HDD or HDD
units from the front panel forcibly logs out any other users logged in to the main unit.
• To exit the disk config window, click the [Main] button. Clicking the [x] button in the upper right corner of the window may cause operation
troubles.
• Before formatting the pre-event recording area, set the camera channels for pre-event recording area as follows.
⋅Set the Model/Compression, address, user name, and password on [NW camera].
⋅Set the pre-event recording rate and pre-event recording time on [Program]
After finishing the settings, connect a camera and make sure an image is displayed.
You may not be able to record data at the time you want if you connect a camera that is not set and format the pre-event recording while
an image is not displayed.
• Pre-event recording formatting cannot be done during RAID5/RAID6 operation with just the recorder.
You need to connect an extension unit to set up pre-event recording in a RAID configuration.