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Not your typical firmware update issue…
We have an HVX-200 that has been mainly used with miniDV or a FS-100 drive.
We’ve tried several times in the past to update the firmware to allow higher capacity P2 cards. (This is an old, old update.) This update process has never been successful, so today I looked back into it since the FireStore drive is a pain to work with.
I downloaded the firmware from Panasonic, added it to an SD card that was freshly formatted in an HVX-200, initiated the menu operations, etc., but the camera will not see the card and give the “Update” option.
This particular camera wasn’t able to format the SD card, so I formatted it in our other HVX-200 (which has never had a problem with a firmware update). Attempting to format in the troublesome camera gives me the error message “Warning, cannot format!”. The write protect tab is not locked on the SD card.
Is this a hardware issue? Has anyone experienced this or this there a hidden diagnostic menu of sorts in the HVX?
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
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I’d check with your dealer. Sounds like a hardware issue of some sort.
John
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Try a smaller capacity SD card.
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I like where your head is. Now just to track one down…
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
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Make sure it is an SD card and not an SDHC card.
Best,
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, HPX500, HPX300, HPX170, HVX200A
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Thanks Jan.
It is indeed an SD card. It’s 1GB, so I’ll try looking around for a smaller capacity card.
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
http://www.steelehouse.com (undergoing a much-needed redesign)
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I’ve since tried a 1GB and a 512MB card, both without any luck. I’ve formatted these cards on my Mac as FAT32 before trying them in the HVX. They read, but will not format. The other HVX reads and formats them.
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
http://www.steelehouse.com (undergoing a much-needed redesign)
http://www.vimeo.com/steelehouse -
Any chance it’d need to be a card smaller than 512MB?
I’m hesitant to say it’s hardware because the camera sees the card. When the card is inserted I can perform card “Operations” on it through the menu, but when I remove the card, it’s grayed out as I would expect it to be.
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
http://www.steelehouse.com (undergoing a much-needed redesign)
http://www.vimeo.com/steelehouse -
[Andrew Saliga] “Any chance it’d need to be a card smaller than 512MB? “
Yes.
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[Andrew Saliga] “Any chance it’d need to be a card smaller than 512MB? “
if I remember correctly- the HVX manual states the SD card needs to be something less that 64MB but it has been awhile since I looked.
gary adcock
Studio37
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I was thinking along those lines, but I looked it up. 8MB-1GB supported.
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
http://www.steelehouse.com (undergoing a much-needed redesign)
http://www.vimeo.com/steelehouse
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