#Micropolis drives
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Sam,
The SuperCam is nice, but from what I hear, before the end of the year the
new digital cameras from Sony, Cannon and Panasonic will cost about half what
the SuperCam costs, with quality equal to BetaCam SP. I'll believe it when I
see it. I've heard that the replacement for the L2 will be called the L3 and
use digital tape.
Not to change the subject, but I did the drive speed test that came with
4.06 with my Micropolis 9gig drives and the results said the A/V model was not
only not capable of HQ5, but was incapable of standard mode also. My non A/V
was capable of HQ5 over 81% of its surface. I can record HQ5 on my A/V and
must reset it to HQ5 in order to play the clips back, so it is recording, but I
don't know what to make of the test results.
I hope you don't mind, but I changed the message heading since we're not
talking about ToasterPaint.
Regards,
Norman Austin 70743,1535
Norman,
I just spoke to someone with an A/V (gold) 9G who said that it has worked
-perfectly- with the Flyer and he's filled up 95% of the drive.
My 9G A/V gold was working well until it got funky and then died totally.
It is to be replaced (hopefully by monday) by a -revised- AV gold from
Micropolis, although it seems I will be the -first- to test this revision, as
neither Micropolis nor Newtek has done any testing at this point (Chuck claims
NT never received the drive for testing).
BTW, Micropolis had my drive for a week, all the while claiming that they
hadn't received it. Only through a UPS trace did I find this out. I haven't
been able to use my Flyer for over three weeks and have lost a lot of work.
I'm hoping that when I finally get the drive, it will work with 4.06. Of
course, then I have to send in my 4G Seagate for revision (when the program
starts.)
This is the last time I buy into an emerging technology — too many headaches.
There's got to be a better way…