D2 Director - Mass Storage Device

[Hardstonemusic]

Hi Just purchased a numark D2 Director (just dont trust my laptop anymore). All seems dandy with it only the USB mass storage device I bought from Maplin a Seagate Freeagent 500GB they are punting out just know for around £80 has "write protection" on it thus my D2 when hooked up to it wont create playlists or save from the crate.

Any suggestions?


Maplin say they wont take it back because the seal has been broken (it said nothing about being write protected on the box)

Thanks

[Vectis]

Is it formatted NTFS? d2 doesn't write to NTFS partitions, only FAT32 partitions.

Personally I use NTFS partitions so there's no chance of the d2 overwriting anything on the drive...


BTW - why not say 'hi' in the Newbies section? It's the done thing ;-)

[Hardstonemusic]

Do I need to format the whole drive to FAT32? and scrub of any data that is on it?

[Corabar Steve]

BTW - why not say 'hi' in the Newbies section? It's the done thing ;-)
Or just ignore that courtesy

[CRAZY K]

Is it formatted NTFS? d2 doesn't write to NTFS partitions, only FAT32 partitions.

Personally I use NTFS partitions so there's no chance of the d2 overwriting anything on the drive...


BTW - why not say 'hi' in the Newbies section? It's the done thing ;-)

OVERWRITING--using a usb READER device how does that work Martin ?

Or is the D2 more than that:D

Dont think the Cortex can do anything except "read":D

CRAZY K

[Vectis]

Do I need to format the whole drive to FAT32? and scrub of any data that is on it?

Only if you want the d2 to be able to save indexes and "beatmatch" information back to the drive. If you just want to play out mp3's already there, it can stay NTFS and you ignore the 'write error' message each time you reboot.

See page 30 of TFM (http://www.numark.com/stuff/contentmgr/files/18e55cbbd4c86202fa43800dfc0a13f1/file/d2director_referencemanual__rev2.0.pdf)


Or just ignore that courtesy

:rolleyes:


OVERWRITING--using a usb READER device how does that work Martin ?

Or is the D2 more than that:D

Dont think the Cortex can do anything except "read":D

CRAZY K

As alluded to above, the d2 can 'index' music files to help with beatmatching and displaying graphical representations of songs (a bit like a waveform) so you can quickly identify quiet portions by eye for rapid cueing.

Now this can either be done with software on the PC or by the d2 itself. However, if you ask the d2 to do it, the drive must be FAT32. d2 cannot write to NTFS format drives.

Personally, I prefer the improved resilience of the NTFS format and I don't use the index features other than on club dance tracks, so I'm happy to do this on a PC.

Incidentally, for anyone monitoring the thread, the latest d2 firmware now supports USB CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drives and supports data as well as audio disks - :D - now I can lose the emergency CD player and free up a line in :D :D :D Tried it on a CD full of MP3's but not a DVD as yet.

[CRAZY K]

Only if you want the d2 to be able to save indexes and "beatmatch" information back to the drive. If you just want to play out mp3's already there, it can stay NTFS and you ignore the 'write error' message each time you reboot.

See page 30 of TFM (http://www.numark.com/stuff/contentmgr/files/18e55cbbd4c86202fa43800dfc0a13f1/file/d2director_referencemanual__rev2.0.pdf)



:rolleyes:



As alluded to above, the d2 can 'index' music files to help with beatmatching and displaying graphical representations of songs (a bit like a waveform) so you can quickly identify quiet portions by eye for rapid cueing.

Now this can either be done with software on the PC or by the d2 itself. However, if you ask the d2 to do it, the drive must be FAT32. d2 cannot write to NTFS format drives.

Personally, I prefer the improved resilience of the NTFS format and I don't use the index features other than on club dance tracks, so I'm happy to do this on a PC.

Incidentally, for anyone monitoring the thread, the latest d2 firmware now supports USB CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drives and supports data as well as audio disks - :D - now I can lose the emergency CD player and free up a line in :D :D :D Tried it on a CD full of MP3's but not a DVD as yet.

Thanks for that--luckily I just mainly play music from a playlist so all this passes me and the Cortex by without having to think about anything :D :D :D

CRAZY K