Do they come with a hard-disk built in, or do you have to buy one separately?
-- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mark Cassino > Sent: 18 February 2007 04:11 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Compact Drive 70x Question > > I finally got around to ordering a Compactdrive 70x as a portable > storage device. I wound up buying one with an "80" gigabyte drive (80 > million bytes, 74 megabytes, but who's counting...) > > If anyone here is using a similar setup - a couple of questions. > > First, the verified write mode does not seem to work at all with SD > cards. (That's the mode where the drive reads and verifies > each file.) > It terminates after the first file with a verification error. > It works > fine with CF Cards though. I have three brands of SD cards (SanDisk > Ultra III, Transcend, and Dane Elec) and it works with none > of these. Is > anyone else using this mode with SD cards? I'm wondering if I > got a bum > unit. Non-verified transfers from SD cards work fine, BTW. > > Second - batteries. I bought this because it is supposed to > work with 4 > AA batteries, but my NiMH batteries seem to work on a fresh > charge for a > short while, but if they sit in the device for just a few hours they > can't put out enough voltage. The drive poops out with a #19 error, > which means no hard drive present. Oddly, it's not the #20, "Bad > Batteries" error. But fresh batteries (or using the power supply) fix > the problem, and checking the batteries is recommended in the > manual for > this error. > > These batteries are 1800 mAh Energizer brand, bout about 3 > months ago. > Granted - they have seen little use since I got them, and I'm in the > process of completely draining and recharging them for a couple of > cycles to see if that helps (over the last few months they have been > charged, died with no use, recharged, a few times.)But I > wonder if the > Compactdrive can run off regular AA alkaline batteries or > lithiums? The > manual states that it is intended to work with NiMH rechargeable, but > never says not to use alkalines. I also wonder if the large HD is > draining more juice than a smaller drive would, and is dropping the > battery voltage during power up and self test... > > Any thoughts on these problems would be appreciated. I bought a fresh > set of NiMh batteries and they are in there charging now, so > maybe that > will solve the battery issue. > > - MCC > > > > -- > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Mark Cassino Photography > Kalamazoo, Michigan > www.markcassino.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
