Bruce Dayton wrote: > I have the older 6A version - it doesn't have the verify after write > like yours does, so I cannot answer to that. I would think, though, > that it uses twice the power for that mode as it has to do a read from > card and then write to disk and then verify with a read from card and > read from disk. So if battery life is of concern, that could be an > issue.
Well, it won't verify even when running off the AC adapter - so probably not the batteries. The verify really does slow things donw since it reads and then re-reads each file, one at at time. > I have never tried mine with anything but NiMH batteries and usually > at least 2100 - but mostly Energizer 2500's. The way you wrote this > almost sounds like you are leaving the unit turned on after transfers > - I'm assuming you turn it off in between. I turn it off, though it will shut down on its own. The new batteries seem to have solved the power issue. I completely drained a set of the 1800 mAh Energizers and then charged them fully, but doing a test card dump using these batteries, the power indicator dropped down to the bare minimum, which means that voltage was below 4.4v (one nice feature about the drive - the power indicator corresponds to the voltage level of the batteries.) The voltage drops during the hard drive self test and during the actual data transfer, but then rises back up. So obviously these batteries can't deliver a sustained voltage level. The new batteries work fine, though - the meter stays at full. Thanks - MCC -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo, Michigan www.markcassino.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
