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S14 Camera Manual: Operating The Camera
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3.4.2 Formatting The MicroSD Card
Before a MOBOTIX camera can store image and video sequences on a MicroSD card, the
card needs to be formatted as MxFFS (MicroSD cards delivered with MOBOTIX cameras are
already MxFFS-formatted). The following steps are necessary to format a storage device
(Admin Menu> Storage on External File Server/ Flash Device):
1. Make sure that there is a MicroSD card in the card slot of the MOBOTIX camera.
2. Click on Format in the SD Flash Card
line.
3.
Note down the characters shown in the
Encryption password field or enter your
own password. Next, click on OK.
Hint: The Secure deletion mode– slow
option will ensure that the data on the
MicroSD card is overwritten completely
so that the data cannot be recovered in
any way. However, keep in mind that this
kind of safe formatting takes considerably
more time.
4. In the next dialog box, enter the user
name and the password of a user of
the admins group and click on OK to
confirm.
The MOBOTIX camera now starts format-
ting the card. It takes 5 to 12minutes to
format an 8GB MicroSD card if the Secure
deletion mode– slow option is disabled.
If Secure deletion mode – slow is enabled, this may take anywhere between 3
and 14 hours.
Once the formatting has been completed, you can activate the MicroSD card for recording
(see next section).
Caution
Make sure that you always wait until the formatting process has been completed
before accessing the camera again. If the Secure deletion mode– slow option is
disabled, this usually takes just a few minutes. You can only access the MicroSD
card once MxFFS formatting has been completed.
Formatting with the Secure deletion mode– slow option enabled takes several
hours. You can also use suitable applications on Windows, Linux/UNIX and Mac OS
X computers to repartition and securely erase the MicroSD card.
Format SD card:
AdminMenu>Storage
onExternalFileServer/
FlashDevice
The Securedeletion
mode–slow option
takes several hours. You
can also use suitable
applications on Windows,
Linux/UNIX, and Mac
OS X computers to
repartition and securely
format the SD card