Panasonic WJ-HD616/1000 Installation Manual page 129

Format the hard disk drives [Format]
Hard disk drives will be formatted, and one of the normal recording area, event recording area or pre-event recording area will be
assigned to each drive. It is necessary to format a hard disk drive on either of the following conditions.
• When an hard disk drive installed in the recorder is removed or added
• When an optional extension unit is connected and used for the first time
Important:
• When the hard disk drive is formatted, all the recorded images will be deleted.
• In the single mode, the capacity of each hard disk drive is configured and formatted. In the RAID 5/RAID 6 mode, the capaci-
ty of each hard disk drive is configured and formatted by the unit.
• Hard disk drives that have already been installed or unformatted drives that are newly installed will automatically be formatted
as the normal recording area when they are recognized.
• It is impossible to assign two or more recording areas to a hard disk drive.
Step 1
Select the [Format] button on the disk configuration page.
→ The [Format] tab will be displayed.
Step 2
Select the recording area to be assigned to each hard disk
drive (to each unit in the RAID 5/RAID 6 mode).
Normal: Assigned to the normal recording area
Event: Assigned to the event recording area
–: Not formatted
Step 3
Select the [Format] button after setting the recording areas
for the hard disk drives.
→ The confirmation window will be displayed.
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