Giroud Francois
January 10th, 2005, 03:46 PM
Ok, trying to revive some interest to an old stuff.
I got the opportunity to purchase 2 DSR-DU1 (direct to disk from Sony) for a good deal (1800$ for both).
So i decided to risk to sacrifice one in an attempt to upgrade from 40Gig to 80gig. The original disk is a 2.5" IBM travelstar 4200rpm.
I put the Travelstar 80 gig 5400 instead and it works.
Easy to dismantle and tricky to reassemble but it works...
I just use Symantec ghost to make an image of the orginal 40gig partition (FAT32) to the new 80gig disk.
As far as i can test now, it records and play fine.
My only problem is the capacity counter shows now 737 min.
It is probably wrong since the original capacity is about 180 min (3 hours) and the new capacity is showing 12 Hours !
I am trying now to fill the disk to see where it fails.
If somebody has the service manual, it seems it is possible to reformat the drive from the DSR-DU1, it should correct the bug.
another interesting fact is that the drive when mounted on the PC, shows some folders like MPEG, DV, WEB.
I can understand the DV folder (actually containing the video), but what about the mpeg folder ? is there some hidden feature in this device. (compatibility with HDV ?)
I got the opportunity to purchase 2 DSR-DU1 (direct to disk from Sony) for a good deal (1800$ for both).
So i decided to risk to sacrifice one in an attempt to upgrade from 40Gig to 80gig. The original disk is a 2.5" IBM travelstar 4200rpm.
I put the Travelstar 80 gig 5400 instead and it works.
Easy to dismantle and tricky to reassemble but it works...
I just use Symantec ghost to make an image of the orginal 40gig partition (FAT32) to the new 80gig disk.
As far as i can test now, it records and play fine.
My only problem is the capacity counter shows now 737 min.
It is probably wrong since the original capacity is about 180 min (3 hours) and the new capacity is showing 12 Hours !
I am trying now to fill the disk to see where it fails.
If somebody has the service manual, it seems it is possible to reformat the drive from the DSR-DU1, it should correct the bug.
another interesting fact is that the drive when mounted on the PC, shows some folders like MPEG, DV, WEB.
I can understand the DV folder (actually containing the video), but what about the mpeg folder ? is there some hidden feature in this device. (compatibility with HDV ?)