MACKIE HDR24/96 - Manual (Page 38)

HDR 24/96
• 5400 RPM minimum –faster will work fine, but won’t work any better and faster drives often
run hotter.
• The operating system at the time of this writing (Version 1.2) will not recognize a drive larger
than 32 GB.
Specific disk drives enter and the market so frequently these days that we can’t possibly keep up with
them and maintain a list of “approved” drives. It’s not unusual for a manufacturer to make changes to
a product and not change the packaging or model number. So even if you’ve found a drive that works
well, chances are pretty good that when time comes to buy another, you’ll end up with something
different. Something different that may or may not work. If you’re going to purchase non-Mackie
drives, a good resource for finding out what other users are currently purchasing is the Mackie Online
Users Forum. There’s a link to it from Mackie’s web page
http://www.mackie.com/ . There are no
guarantees that a specific model will work, even if it passes the performance verification test, so if
you want to go this route you have to be willing to experiment and be willing to deal with the
occasional dud.
Disk drives have jumpers for changing how the drive is seen by the host controller. Drives in the
HDR24/96 must be configured as a Master, as if it was the only drive connected to the controller
(because it is – the external drive is connected to the second IDE port on the mother board). Check
the label on the disk drive, the instructions that came along with it, or the drive manufacturer’s web
site for the proper jumpering.
If you’ve installed a bay in your computer for reading a Mackie external drive, we suggest that you
connect the bay similarly – to your computer’s second IDE port. Otherwise, you may have to change
jumpers on the drive when you plug it into your computer – and change them back when you re-
install it in the recorder.
Mount/Refresh Drives
The Mount/Refresh drives command updates the HDR24/96 Project file lists to reflect the current
status of both the internal and external drives. Use this command to mount a new Mackie Media
PROJECT disk, or to view the size of files in a Project file list.
To Mount drives from the HDR24/96 front panel:
Press the DISK UTIL button. Select
Mount.
Press the DISK UTIL button again to exit after the mounting operation is complete.
To Refresh the Project file lists from the GUI:
Select Mount/Refresh Drives from the File menu.
The Refresh command is also conveniently located in the Open Project, Project
Manager, and Import Audio Files dialog boxes. If you have one of those dialog boxes open and
you don’t see the files or folder you’re looking for or if the file size is not visible, click Refresh.
Backing up and Restoring Audio
A discussion of Backup and Restore operations appear here, because the back-up and recording media
have been discussed and you may be wondering how to use them to save your audio for posterity.
However it should be noted that Back-up and Restore are both accomplished by simply copying a
Project from one disk drive to another, and this copy operation is covered in detail in the section on
Project Management (page 44).
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