Formatting disks

Pre-event recording area formatting

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.

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.

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Click the [Config.] button on the setup menu.

This will display the administrator authentication window.

Enter the "Administrator name" and "Password", and then click the [OK] button.

This will display the disk information window.

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On the sub-menu that appears, click [Pre-event recording area].

This will display the "Pre-event recording area setting" window.

Select 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.

3 On the disk config top window, click [Format].

This will display the "Format" window.

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Panasonic WJ-ND400 manual Pre-event recording area formatting, On the disk config top window, click Format

WJ-ND400 specifications

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