RADAR Quickstart Guide, Chapter 2: The Day Before
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This guide for the iZ RADAR audio recorder will flatten the learning curve for all users. This guide is not designed as a replacement for the official manuals, available from iZ Technology.
Note that this quickstart guide primarily refers to the system that Silent Way offers, the iZ RADAR V Nyquist with system software 3.5x or 3.4x. Other models in the RADAR family (the older RADAR I, II, 24 and the newer 6) and older software versions are slightly different than Silent Way's RADAR V units, but most of this will still apply.
Chapter 2: The Day Before
One item to plan ahead for is identifying the hard drive interface and the drive carrier. The drive carrier used by a particular RADAR system may be either SATA-based in a DE110 carrier, or SCSI-based in a DE100 carrier. SATA/DE110 is the newer standard. Inside the carrier is the actual hard drive mechanism.
To identify these, look for "DE110" or "DE100" on the carrier. Another distinguishing feature is the number of pins on the back-plane connector. SATA/DE110 has three rows, which each have 25 pins, while SCSI/DE100 has four rows of 25 pins each. Also, SATA/DE110 has the key slot on the drive carrier, while SCSI/DE100 the key slot on the drive bay/receiver. So,
|
Carrier |
Interface |
Pins |
Key Slot |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE110 | SATA | three rows of 25 pins each | on the drive carrier | Newer, faster |
| DE100 | SCSI | four rows of 25 pins each | on the drive bay/receiver |
The rest of this chapter isn't written yet (I skipped ahead to chapters 3 and 4). Here are a few items to help plan ahead when using RADAR:
Silent Way's guide to DB25 cables
My article on road cases for RADAR
Back to Silent Way's RADAR Quickstart Guide
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