I had a problem with the display showing HEX digits. I sent it back to HHB,
they fixed the problem which was dry joints on the display connector. I
haven't seen any of the other problems that you listed.
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Dominique Laloux
Sent: 31 July 2005 09:11
To:
Subject: RE: [Nature Recordists] recovering erased MD tracks
Good morning,
I have a Portadisc, and I am wondering if TOC errors are common with
other recorders.
My unit started to have problems with TOC once in a while over a year
ago. I sent it back to HHB, but they claimed they could find nothing
wrong with the unit. However, it kept generating TOC errors once in a
while (the most common problems being that it indicates a huge number of
tracks -- in the 100s --, or it displays hexadecial numbers instead of
track times, etc.)
Now, once in a while, when I press the keys to enter "Pause-Recording"
mode, it displays "Overwriting" followed immediately by "Disk Full".
>From that moment, it is impossible to read track #1. The track number is
displayed, but when I try to read it, the counter stays at 0:00. When I
delete track 1, that makes the expected unused time available once
again... Last week, I have lost two interesting tracks due to that
problem.
Is that inherent to MD technology, or should I just dump the Portadisc ?
Is there any tool available on the market to recorver lost tracks ?
Thanks,
DL
=20=20=20=20=20
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of Dan Dugan
> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 5:27 AM
> To:
> Subject: [Nature Recordists] recovering erased MD tracks
>
>
> John Hartog, you wrote,
>
> >Later that day while checking out the features of my new minidisc
> >recorder, I accidentally erased the whole thing.
>
> Don't you hate it when you do that! I erased a long, very good take
> myself last week, when I thought I was erasing a track I made by
> mistake while walking.
>
> It's a good rule to never erase anything in the field!
>
> In my case I was able to recover the latter part of the erased track,
> the part not recorded over by subsequent recordings, by cloning the
> MD directory, and that was the good part of the track.
>
> I've just discovered that the Sony deck in my studio is capable of
> cloning directories. Send me the disc if you want and I'll see if
> it's still there.
>
> If you -know- you made an erasure mistake, or get a TOC error, the
> important thing is not to record any more on that disc. In my case I
> didn't know till I transferred the audio, so I lost the beginning of
> the long take by recording over it.
>
> -Dan Dugan
>
>
> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>=20
>
>
"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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