Operating instructions

The general operations are as below:

 MODE => Format

Press this button to format the HDD. A confirmation dialog will be shown on the screen, press

ENTER to confirm or ESC to cancel. Please note that it would take about 40 seconds to

format a brand new HDD.

Note: If the HDD has not been formatted yet, it will be formatted and partitioned with default

record size, 30% for Alarm record and 70% for Normal record. If it has been formatted

before, it will be formatted according to the Alarm REC Size (%) and Normal REC Size

(%) displayed on the screen, but the previously recorded contents within the new size

won’t be cleared and will be accessible.

 SEQ => Clear

Press this button to clear the HDD. A confirmation dialog will be shown on the screen, press

ENTER to confirm, or ESC to cancel.

Note: If the HDD has not been formatted yet, it will be formatted and partitioned with default

record size, 30% for Alarm record and 70% for Normal record. If it has been formatted

(and recorded) before, it will be partitioned according to the Alarm Record Size (%) and

Normal Record Size (%) displayed on the screen and the previously recorded contents will

all be cleared.

 CALL => Physical Format

Press this button to physically format the selected HDD. A confirmation dialog will be shown on

the screen, press ENTER to confirm, or ESC to cancel. Please note that the recording will be

always optimized for performance & lifetime no matter it’s for the first time or for the one

hundredth time. The formatting would take less than 1 minute. We strongly recommend

that the user use this physical format function to format the HDD for the first time.

Note: The HDD will be physically formatted and partitioned with default record size, 30% for

Alarm record and 70% for Normal record. All the previously recorded contents will be

cleared.

 ESC

Press this button to escape from this screen and return to HDD Setup display. If the Save dialog

is shown, press

ENTER

to exit and save,

ESC

to exit without saving.

Following is a brief description for each item and its specific operations:

 Size (GB) – the total storage in GB (Giga-Byte) for the HDD if it has been formatted. This item

is just for information.

 Alarm Record(%) – Alarm Record Size (in percentage) for this HDD. Please follow the Text

Input method described in Section 4.1 to change the value.

 Normal Record(%) – Normal Record Size (in percentage) for this HDD. It equals to (100% -

Alarm Record Size). This item is just for information.