Welcome to our community

Be a part of something great, join today!

Log in
  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Red Drives not showing up on R1

R

Roger Simmons

Active member
Joined
Nov 4, 2012
Messages
43
Reaction score
0
Points
0
Bought two red drives hooded them up to my R1mx and my R1 won't see them. Tested the drives on my computer and they worked fine. Please help.
 
What does it say on the Red One display - No media attached or something else?

The most likely culprit is your Red Drive cable. Have you tried swapping that?
 
Just a silly question - how are you hooking up the Red Drive to the camera? You aren't trying to use a USB cable by any chance?

If you are using a Red Drive Lemo cable, then try another Red Drive cable.
 
ericyoung said:
Just a silly question - how are you hooking up the Red Drive to the camera? You aren't trying to use a USB cable by any chance?

If you are using a Red Drive Lemo cable, then try another Red Drive cable.
Click to expand...

I'm going between two different Lemo cables that came with the drives.
 
the chance that you've gotten 2 broken drive-cables is pretty low (even used)...

I'd ask the person you've bought it from on which firmware (or on which device) the HDD was formatted!
If you have an older firmware (edit: or maybe even just a different one) then the camera the drive was formatted with chances are that it doesn't work... (I guess)...
 
Last edited:
If you can see the drives on the computer. Do a format on the computer as FAT32. Hopefully this will then allow the drives to be recognised by the camera.

If they are recognised by the camera, then do a format on the camera, and then they should be usable.
 
ericyoung said:
If you can see the drives on the computer. Do a format on the computer as FAT32. Hopefully this will then allow the drives to be recognised by the camera.

If they are recognised by the camera, then do a format on the camera, and then they should be usable.
Click to expand...

Formatted the drive on my PC and Mac, no luck. Doesn't see the media at all. Thanks
 
sorry, that was my bad... it's not possible apparently. I just thought maybe you have had red watchdog running and the HHD was maybe mounted read-only so the formatt on the PC failed - but that can't be the case if you tried different machines/OS...

what about trying red undead? Maybe this tool offers "new" options to you that might be handy to solve this?
 
Peter Stelzhammer said:
sorry, that was my bad... it's not possible apparently. I just thought maybe you have had red watchdog running and the HHD was maybe mounted read-only so the formatt on the PC failed - but that can't be the case if you tried different machines/OS...

what about trying red undead? Maybe this tool offers "new" options to you that might be handy to solve this?
Click to expand...

Thanks will give it a try.
 
Can you hear the drive spin up when it's connected to the camera? If not the Lemo on the drive may have come loose from the circuit board. If you open up the drive you'll see the connector is wired to a small daughter board that connects to another board by a plastic header. Make sure that is seated firmly and is level. On first drive I had the connecter had lifted by barely a millimeter at the left edge, but that was enough - pushed it back into place and it worked fine.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top