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Sure - I have just never seen an ATRAC bit rate that high. Unless it's an MP3........

I'm not 100% sure I believe this. The LCD displays on both NH900 and RH910 have a habit of getting dim too. In that case it's a simple matter of following the adjustment of the main power circuits as laid down in the first page of "Electrical Adjustments" in the Service Manual. It occurs to me (I cannot get into Service Mode on my RH1, and in any event the display is not dimmed) that perhaps following the adjustment for the RH1 will actually fix this problem.

Not convert to MP3. Remove the file encryption (copy protection). When you get to the second prompt, there is a check box, which you need to UNcheck. The tool will then revise its estimate. The first time you ever do it, the number will not change (and it may take hours) But subsequent runs, the second estimate will be WAY down, and even then it might say 10 minutes and take 30 seconds. Dont worry about checking the box that talks about deleting the originals. No need to check it. All your .oma files will be replaced (this in future is how you tell) by .OMA files. The beauty of this is that now they can be read from another PC. Until you do this, no other PC or installation of SonicStage can play your 24 hours of files. If you have never done it, and not lost any files, congratulations! But a simple reformat of Windows or an upgrade, and you run the risk to lose the lot, until you have exercised this tool.

It will find them where they are. ANYTHING you uploaded to the PC (presumably from MZ-RH1) is subject to DRM. Better to decrypt immediately. Before moving anything. Probably you are in no danger but you may be if you end up reinstalling anything if things go wrong.

Tools->Options->Location to save imported files Not sure, but I think this will not move existing files. You may want to figure out how to do that when you see what happens. DO run the File Conversion Tool (to remove copy protection). You don't want to lose all the files you have already to the icy grip of Sony's DRM.

One place that I know it is easy to add (or adjust) inter-track silences, is when you make a CD in Nero. I have not checked, but I have a feeling that these silences will be preserved when you do a CD->MD copy. Another place one can add silence (this is more of a pain but for the odd place you care about may be just fine) is using SoundForge or CoolEdit or Audition. Not sure if either of these tricks is any help.

The mechanism for HiMD is similar. I was able to skip the third disk (I tried it and it failed but the unit was fine), and used an 80m disk formatted to HiMD for the second one. The sequence of the relevant byte (1931 on the RH910, I don't know about first or third gen yet, as I feel one needs to be desperate to do alignment without the "proper" alignment disk from Sony) is: After reset: 00 After CD step: 11 After HiMD1 step: 37 After HiMD3 step(presumably): FF Note these look like bit fields, whose meaning is unknown and undocumented, of course. When I got to 37 and the third step failed, I simply (as you did) FF'd it. (is that a new verb?). Presto! This fixed the servo mechanism. But I still needed to use the LPM to adjust actual laser power to get proper TOC-writing. I should not speculate, but perhaps precisely because I didn't finish. Stephen PS I have no idea whether the failure in Step 3 was expected or an accident. As the unit is working again, I have not much motivation to find out.

It's almost time to edit and freeze the original thread, and ask people to start (or add to) a new one with questions like this. They all come down to the same few problems. Welcome to the Wild and Wacky World of Windows (i've sometimes wondered if there ought to be a site at www.wwwww.com). Alancee, you are trying to solve two problems at once. They have a common origin, essentially. As you have noticed you can get HiMD working on one setup but not NetMD, and vice versa. This is because all HiMD units present as TWO DIFFERENT MACHINES, to the USB bus. With no disk in the unit, how it connects will depend on the "Disc Mode" (you will have to change the settings in the unit, my preference is NetMD because I do a lot of SP uploading - when I am doing live recording, it gets changed to HiMD, because that affects fresh disks). With a formatted disk in the RH1 (and this goes for other units too), the device mode will depend on whether that disk is HiMD or NetMD (including SP, a better name might be LoMD). Attempts to switch mode from within SonicStage are (almost) bound to fail especially running a hybrid system like Windows-on-Mac or 32-hosted-on-64. So stick to one for the moment, and solve that (the Divide-and-Conquer philosophy!). Your first problem (with W64 not working) has been solved for you neatly by Joel Cee. If that doesn't work for you, please come back here, and we will talk about that one problem. This is probably your best point of attack. Your second problem (with Parallels failing to switch modes) is most likely because you have to decide what DISC MODE the drive is in before connecting to the PC's USB. I don't think you will ever get Mac to switch from one to the other while a disk is in the drive. It's bad enough even with Windows. USB is a minefield ("de facto" standards) and Sony and Microsoft did as well as they could without orphaning a whole lot of equipment that doesn't meet proper specifications of any kind. At least you have both NetMD and HiMD working (albeit on different 'puters). Be happy! Stephen

Maybe we need to sticky that one...... people? PS I am most curious - I can see peeking out from your SS screen the message "2304 kbps". What on earth is that, please? Never heard of such a high bit rate in SS - or is this some sort of erroneous reportage?

yes it will. you can use all the known and existing drivers with W7-32. But they will still have the "slow SP upload" nonsense. I need to figure out WHY the security warning comes up, though. Perhaps someone can show us it doesn't happen under W7-32????

Nope. We already went there. There are faults in both of those. The Sony has been improved on, and the guy at archivision is copying our efforts but making errors. See the stickied thread (here) that's getting all the attention.

Looks from the manual (this is weeeeeird) that the 510 uses NiCd and the 610 uses NiMH. What the heck is going on? I'll bet there's an NVRAM setting distinguishing the two.

delete all I wrote and insert: aha... this claims to be NiCd not NiMH. Better check the manual first. Ok you may be right that NiCd and NiMH both work. Perhaps it can sense which is which somehow. But alkaline rechargeable completely different. These charging circuits rely on a few millivolts difference in battery voltage when "cooked", so no way it would work as is a function of type of battery.

Start here No editing of INF file needed.

Probably you should follow the steps here. It may be simpler than that, merely "update driver" on the device with the yellow exclamation mark in Device Manager. But before that, try reading from about post #32 in this thread. You're not alone.

I might let someone else who has actually done this comment now. But one thing you might try is to put a SP (or LP2 or LP4) disk in the RH1. The fact it says "Access" is extremely encouraging. I feel sure you are nearly there. You're probably right that you need to install the driver BEFORE you start using SonicStage.

See the first download in the drivers topic (in our downloads area). Specifically see post #81 in this thread. Make sure you get rid of the existing Sonic Stage before you start, and use Avrin's from the download section (also prominently in view).

You need the driver from the other thread. Note that it is the featured download.

Philippe, please stop shouting. Most people are not able to work out loading another operating system, even a virtual one.

(note) This topic has nothing to do with Windows 64.

Not so fast. You can't have the XP Virtual Machine on Home Premium. It's about another $100 to Microsoft for an upgrade to Professional. Or you have to get VMWare loaded, which is harder than many people are able to contemplate. Note that giant_rick is (was, it's a year ago now) talking about Hi-SP, which we know is ok because no driver is needed. Stephen

Adventurous! Try going into the MZ-RH1's menu (buttons on unit) and set the Disc Mode to HiMD. This means that even without a disk in it the unit will appear as HiMD to the Mac. All HiMD units are dual-personality, under Windows they switch when you put a properly formatted disk in, but under Mac, I have no idea. However forcing the format to the one you want means that you won't have the hassle with one driver disconnecting and the other connecting. I just re-initialized a (formatted) NetMD disk as HiMD (using NH700). The automatic switch did not happen, so perhaps the driver isn't cooperating in "real" Windows either. After initialization, I had to open the unit and reinsert the disk for the switchover to happen. (However this may be part of my adventures with NetMD drivers, and if it doesn't apply to you then can be ignored... YMMV as they say) One more thought: can you try initting the disk WITHOUT using the computer?

There's no "custom" to it. All we are doing is making the more recent driver be used by ALL models. I'm not sure I understand the second comment. A HiMD machine presents to the USB as two completely different entities: 1. A NetMD unit that understands the NetMD protocol and the NetMD formats 2. A HiMD unit that understands USB mass storage protocol (and a couple of little hidden commands from ASPI/SCSI which are used to access the hidden disk UUID). You can hear 1 change to/from 2 by removing a legacy disk and inserting a HiMD formatted disk (either 80m or 1GB), or vice-versa. The USB "interface down" (windows) sound will be followed by the reverse "interface up" as it switches interfaces. What happens on the HiMD unit end is that the firmware disconnects from using one protocol and reconnects using the other. Independent of all of this is the actual "raw" speed of the interface, which started getting quicker about the time HiMD was invented, and increased further when USB 2.0 was implemented for the MZ-RH1. Clear as mud?

Could this be because the capacitors marked with an asterisk need also to be changed? Moi, no idea, but I see the alteration in the diagram. Pretty cool hackery, Jim!

Same here, although my ambitions were limited to a few shows each of which fits, amazingly, onto a single DVD-R. Would be interested in trade, but I bet you have the only stuff I already collected. Send me a PM if you like. Stephen