wee_boi888 Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 I just got a new NH1 from Malaysia and i'm testing it out before I bring it back to AustraliaDue to disimilar tastes in music, I added a couple of mp3 files onto a 1 gig MD using sonic stage 2.3After that I deleted the songs cos i didnt like em and it said i only had 963.9 megs left instead of the original 1 gig...I've formatted the disk manually using the player and its still the same...So basically I got no songs but theres less room on the disk than initially. Can anyone please help??? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 The player reports 963.9MB, or Windows reports 963.9MB? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wee_boi888 Posted February 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 (edited) On Sonic Stage, the transfer tab, it says i got 963.9 megs spaceand sorry, its sonic space 2.1 Edited February 15, 2005 by wee_boi888 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Sim Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 I also encountered this when using my NH700 as a mass storage device on a mac using OSX when I deleted a 150mb (ish) video file from my HiMD disc and OSX informed me of nochange of free space on my disc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael1980 Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 How about restarting SS, disconnecting and connecting again the player? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROMBUSTERS Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 referring to the manual, the HiMD disc requires at least 2MB of free space for error correction and TOC data.Also a 1GB formatted partition is never actually 1GB it is slightly less.Adding these two factors together, along with the fact that we theorize the data is mounted as a 'virtual' drive. is probably why there is some descrepency. also the manual mentions different sizes appearing because of the different nature of binary verses decimal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin42 Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 Are you SURE the blank disc originally reported 1GB? I don't have my USB cable with me (stupid proprietary Sony cables) to test but I am pretty sure my NH1 reports about 963mb or so with a brand new, fresh from the shrinkwrap, blank MD, due to everything above. (TOC overhead, the 1000byte math, etc) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlowMo Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 (stupid proprietary Sony cables)...←i found it working with any other usb cable, (there´s two different mini-plugs, a and b, mini-b fits into md)about the space issue, -weird-, is the space furtherly getting less, if you repeat the procedure, or does it stop at a certain point ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fast Eddie Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 1GB discs are actually something like 36MB short of 1GB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDfreak Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 1GB discs are actually something like 36MB short of 1GB.←1 GB discs are slightly bigger than 1,000,000,000 bytes1,000,000,000 / 1024 = 976,562.5 kB976,562.5 / 1024 = 953.67 MBThe same as with harddisks, a 30 GB harddisk has 30,000,000,000 bytes of space = 27.9 GB.To be even more precise: in the Sony specs this is stated:`1,008,467,968 bytes, a portion of which is used for data management functions.`So 963 MB of free space is also what I get on a 1 GB disc and is perfectly normal.With flash/memory it is even more worse, some brands that sell 512 MB flashmemorycards actually sell cards that contain only a couple of MB more space than a 256 MB flash memory! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin42 Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 (edited) i found it working with any other usb cable, (there´s two different mini-plugs, a and b, mini-b fits into md)about the space issue, -weird-, is the space furtherly getting less, if you repeat the procedure, or does it stop at a certain point ?←I have the NH1, the "If You Can Afford It You Can Afford Our Cables Too (not that we'll make it easy to find them!)" model of the HiMD family. (stupid Sony...)Anyway, you should never lose more space. You'll just never see a true 1gb, it should always be just about that 963mb mark. Edited February 15, 2005 by Justin42 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredpb Posted February 15, 2005 Report Share Posted February 15, 2005 HiMD uses a lot of storage for it's file system. You will never get 1gb of data space. I get about 930mb or so for music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wee_boi888 Posted February 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2005 Oh, thanks for the info - I must of read somewhere else i had 1gig left and got confused...Many thanks from a newbie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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