grahamlthompson
Well-Known Member
I have been assuming since the BIOS was mentioned that they were directly connected via a SATA connector; perhaps Dave W can clarify.
TBH I never thought of that, there are so many ways of connecting external drives to computers I just assumed that usb was the obvious way. I have several ways of connecting external drives including a cable only system that supports IDE and SATA and a USB slot in cradle for any size of sata drive that also has an esata port (used with a blu-ray external burner drive). Not used a desktop system for a long time, only laptops. I have one elderly laptop with a slot that can be used for firewire which I keep purely for video capture from DV camcorders. For a while I actually ran my Foxsat-HDR with the internal SATA port brought out to a external esata cradle with a home made usb powered mains switch to turn on the power to the cradle. You could then swap the internal recording drive to in effect create unlimited storage. The CF made this arrangement somewhat redundant.
Can anyone remember the spec of the original drive fitted to the Foxsat-HDR, mine was swapped for a WD 1TB sata II drive late 2008, it continues to work reliably in my Foxsat-HDR those these days it does not have a much of a recording schedule ? It is used largely to keep track of freesat changes thanks to so many others that have developed the CF to such an extent it can send an e-mail every day detailing what has changed during overnight housekeeping. I tend not to use the box to view recordings directly, the picture quality is visibly superior by simply using my HDR100oS to stream recordings directly from it's hard disk.
Thanks to Raydon, who managed to solve the issue of HD recordings selecting the AD audio track on G2 and other units.
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