PDW-U1 Data Storage

[Ed Cilley]

Ray,

I found your comment and thought you may have some answers since you upgraded several machines.

I read about the firmware update for the Sony PDW-U1 XDCam disc player that would allow this deck to record. We have not been able to record back to the deck. I down loaded the package from Sony, installed, and checked the firmware. We had an older version so I upgraded.

Now, every disc I insert shows “0 clips” in the XDCam Transfer software – not good. Played the disc in another deck (the 75) and they play fine.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Ed

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[Steve Knattress]

Did anyone solve this?

I have a new PDW-U2 with the latest software.

I formatted a disk and got the correct file structure for XDCAM but I am also unable to store more than the 9GB into the user data area despite my mbp reporting that there is 13Gb ish free!

Steve

[Steve Knattress]

sorry to reply to myself but I have found the problem:

“The maximum number of files that can be created on a disc is 5,000 for single-layer discs, 6,000 for dual-layer discs, and 20,000 for quad-layer WO discs (including directories). The maximum number of clips that can be created on a disc is 300 for single-layer and dual-layer discs, and 1,200 for quad-layer WO discs. If this limit is reached, nothing more can be written to the disc, even if the disc still has free capacity remaining.”

I need to zip my picture files!

Steve