Operator`s manual

Model VR240 Audio Logging Recorder
January 2000
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drive is recording, those menu items will be displayed. You can play archive media while you
are concurrently recording. By using the
Dual Record
feature, you can record material on two
media simultaneously. Should you need to review something before the media has run out, you
can stop/suspend one, search its entire length for the needed material, and then resume
recording on it. Meanwhile, the other media has continued recording uninterrupted.
To review media that has just been recorded using the
Dual Rec
mode, simply select the drive
using the
Drive
soft key. Press the
Stop
transport key and then the
SuspendLwr
soft key.
When you suspend a drive from recording it will be positioned at the end of the recorded
portion. Hitting
Play
immediately will give a
Pause End
display. The rewind and
GoTo
operations work as usual once you have stopped recording. To review an archived media, you
must first
Eject
the media that you have just suspended. (Ejecting recorded media will cause
the label printer to generate a label. Since this is presumably not the media you wish to archive,
you may want to temporarily turnoff the label printer before ejecting.) You can then insert the
media you wish to review.
IMPORTANT
While you are recording on one drive, there is always the
possibility of uncommanded recording on the other drive as part of
the normal sequential operation of the VR240. Be sure to set the
write protect tab if you do not wish to record.
When you have completed your review of the current or the archive media, you can continue
recording on the current media by using the
Resume
soft key. When non-write-protected media
is inserted in a drive, the
Resume
soft key acts just like the
Record
transport key except that it
will automatically run the media to the end of the data area first. Thus, it will append data to the
media instead of recording over it from the beginning. (If the media has been recorded beyond
the
Almost Full
point,
Resume
will give you a message and exit.)
This exhausts the options accessible while playing messages. The VR240 allows you quickly
and easily to find and play back audio from any portion of the archive media.
5-20. IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT WRITE-PROTECTION.
Write Protection
: The DDS cassettes and Rewriteable DVD-RAM disks have a write protect
mechanism that unconditionally prevents their erasure by the VR240. By setting the plastic tab
on the media, or properly positioning the switch on the optical disk, you can prevent any write
operation. As mentioned above, we recommended that whenever you are putting media that
you do not want to record on the VR240, you set the write protect tab. Under certain
circumstances, the VR240 will automatically format media. It is always possible to hit the wrong
button accidentally. Write protection is a specific defense against this particular version of
Murphy’s law, and is guaranteed to be safe and effective.
5-21. AUXILIARY OPERATIONS: COPY AND MAKE INDEX.
The VR240 provides two additional capabilities.
Copy
, available on dual-drive VR240s, is an
extremely convenient method of making digitally precise duplicates, including unit and serial