kcmyoung

Thanks guys. It looks like I've solved my problem [touches wood]. I needed to rule out that it wasn't the disc that was dodgy before I sent back the unit in a huff. I didn't have any other Hi-MDs - in fact, I didn't get a disc with the unit at all, which I think is ridiculous, but fortunately I ordered a "spare" from Amazon when I bought it - so I popped in an old 74 minute MD I had and recorded for 10 minutes in Hi-MD mode. That transferred over fine. So at that point I knew that either my Hi-MD was iffy or my unit had trouble with Hi-MDs (unlikely). So I popped out and bought a new Hi-MD (one in the ugly big cases - bleugh!), recorded on that for 20 minutes and that file uploaded fine too. I guess the faulty disc is "good enough" to allow recording and playback, but "bad enough" to produce so many errors during the faster transfer rate that the unit gives up on it. I'll be sending that cute little transparent blue disc back to Amazon for a replacement! I'm not that bothered, but it's knocked my confidence with the technology somewhat... Thanks for your input! Kenny

Hello folks! First post - I've been reading these forums over the past couple of days in anticipation of receiving my MZ-RH10 today. It came with SS 3.0, but I downloaded and installed SS 3.2 to allow multiple uploads of recordings to my PC. I'm in the UK, so I applied the firmware alteration to remove the output limit and get access to the custom EQ. Many thanks to you for these handy pieces of information! I was testing the recorder out this afternoon - I recorded in PCM. The recording went without a hitch. I can play back the recordings fine on the unit and fine in SS via USB (all the way through without any errors). However, if I try and transfer any of these files on to my PC the unit displays "ACCESS ERROR", then shortly afterwards SS gives me "An error occurred while transferring. An internal error has occurred.". I was reading in another thread about recordings with gaps/silence in them (caused by buffer underflow during recording due to vibrational disturbance) which would not transfer; my files play back fine which means all the data is there on the disc and can be accessed. I’m not using a USB hub… I tried cutting up a long recording in to smaller files. A ten minute file would not transfer, so I cut it up in to 1 minute, 2 minute, 3 minute and 4 minute tracks. The 1 minute and 2 minute files transferred fine, but the 3 and 4 minute tracks did not. I then merged the 1 and 2 minute tracks in to a 3 minute track but it also failed - bearing in mind that this 3 minute track had no problems uploading when it consisted of two separate tracks this reafirms that there is nothing wrong with the data on the disc (?). I was thinking it might be a problem specific to transferring linear PCM so, as an experiment, I made a 20 minute recording in Hi-SP mode. It wouldn’t transfer either. So this is a file size thing… I can get access to my recordings by recording the output from SS when it is reading the unit from USB so it’s not a total write-off. But it would be nice to use the unit as it was intended and gain a little bit of speed in the upload process. Can anyone explain what I’m doing wrong or what might be up with my new toy?! Cheers, Kenny