P2 Store operation guide

April, 2006
Alliance Development team
Professional AV Systems B.U.
Panasonic AVC Networks Company

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1. Power On1) After supply AC power or Battery, slide knob to open panel

2) Press Power key to boot up.
All LED flash two times, then power LED
brink 10 seconds during boot up hard disk.
After hard disk is ready, Power LED turns toON.

2. Copy material from P2card to HDD (Hard Disk Drive)
1) Check remaining HDD capacity.

Five LEDs indicate remaining disk
capacity when press “HDD CAP.” key.

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2) Check remaining battery power
By pressing left side key, LEDs indicate
remaining power of battery. We
recommend full charges before use.
When battery power is low, Red
Blinking is started on E2 LED, also Red
light is on at the front panel. In this case,power off and change battery, or supply
AC power.

3) Insert P2card into the slot.

4) Copy P2card material into HDD.

Press START key more than two
seconds.

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Orange lights is ON at “P2C > HDD”
and copy progress is indicated by fivegreen LED from 20% to 100%.

If shock is detected during copy
process, hold writing in order to avoid
disk corruption.

During protect disk, LED “E4” is turned
to Orange. When shock or vibration isstopped, orange light is turned off, andstart writing again in a few seconds.

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Copy process is finished when copy
status LEDs are all ON.

Press Power Key to end process.
* No Key is functioned before pressing
Power key.

Copy is done when COPY STATUS
LEDs are all off.

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P2-Store Guide3. HDD storage space segmentation

Area 01

4 GB

Area 02

4 GB

Area 03

4 GB

Area 04

4 GB

Area 05

4 GB

Area 06

4 GB

Area 07

4 GB

Area 08

4 GB

Area 09

4 GB

Area 10

4 GB

Area 11

4 GB

Area 12

4 GB

Area 13

4 GB

Area 14

4 GB

Area 15

4 GB

Hard disk is partitioned 15 areas inorder to get faster transfer.
Each partition is reserved 4GB space,so it is always consumed 4GB spaceeven very small amount of data iscopied.
When 8GB P2card is inserted, twopartitioned areas are reserved, so it isalways consumed 8GB space evenvery small amount data is copied.
Note: After copy is done, P2 store is
not able to delete specific partitionedarea.

4. Remove P2card
Press Eject button once. The knob iscome out, then press Eject button
again, P2card is ejected.

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5. Formatting P2card
1) Press “P2C” key more than two seconds.

Format P2card for erase all material.
COPY STATUS LED is blinking atorange by pressing “P2C” key morethan two seconds.

2) Hit START key during Orange LED is blinking

P2card formatting is started when hit
START key during orange LEDs areblinking. Format is finished when LEDs
turn off.

6. Formatting HDD
1.) Insert sharp object into hall indicated ‘HDD’Formatting disk is required in order toerase data in HDD.
Orange LEDs at COPY STATUS start
blinking when insert sharp object,such as ball point pen, into hall morethan two seconds.

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P2-Store Guide2) Hit START key during orange LEDs , COPY STATUS, are blinking.

Formatting HDD is started by hitting
START key during orange LEDs ,COPY STATUS,areblinking.
Formatting is finished when LEDs areturned off.

7. Connecting with Windows PC
1) USB cable
Use typical USB cable which has A and
B connectors such as left picture.

AB2.) Insert Connector B into right hand side of P2-Store.

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AC adaptor is recommended when
operating with PC in order to avoid
accidental shut down.

3.) Insert Connector A into USB port in PC
After connecting to PC, USB LED isturned ON at green when press power
key in the P2-Store.
* If color is orange, it required changemode. Please refer section 9,Connecting with Mac.

When P2-Store is mounted by PC, device window isappeared. Click cancel to close.

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Drive Icon is displayed when P2 Storeis mounted successfully.
After mounded, it can access material
with P2viewer software.
Or it can access material with Avid orCanopus Editing software.
Note: It cannot copy material fromP2card to P2-Store’s HDD during
connectingwithPC.
Pleasedisconnect P2-store from PC.

Note: P2-Store is designed for copy data from P2card, not able to copy data from PC or Mac.
Note; P2-Store does not have capability of stream data out.

8. P2-Store Manager ( There is no Mac version at this moment. )1) Connect P2-Store and PC with USB cable
P2-Store Manager is application
software for status display ofP2-Store.

Select P2 Store Manager fromWindows Start >> All Program >>Panasonic P2 >> P2 Store Manager.

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P2-Store Guide2.) Launch P2 Store Manager
HDD page shows copied data
information for each partition
area.
Status shows ‘OK’ when copy isfinished correctly. ‘ERROR’ whenaccident is happened during thecopy.
Quick Format button in Erase
Data area, all data in P2-store iserased.
AccumulatedtimeinMaintenance area is showed totalhoursofP2-Store.
We
recommend maintenance service
every 2000 hours.

To make sure hard disk
conditions, S.M.A.R.T. ( Self
Monitoring
AnalysisandReportingTechnology）
information is useful.
If NG is displayed in Status, it isrequired to service maintenance.
Pre-Failure / Advisory isindicated priority of each item. “1”means priority high. If you findNG and priority high, hard disk
has serious problem. We strongly
recommend to check servicemaintenance immediately.

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Setting can change each items.
We recommend to use default
setting. It is user responsibility
to change setting other thandefault.

This page shows firmware
version and handle upgrade.

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9. Connecting with Mac

To recognize P2 Store into Mac,
Boot up Mac and P2-Store andconnect with USB cable.

Press continuously both side of keys in
STATUS area and Cancel key
simultaneously until USB LED isturned to Orange. Set up is done
when USB LED is turned to orange.

After P2-Store is mounted with Mac,Icons ‘No Name’ are appeared.
Note: It cannot copy P2card tointernal Hard disk during connectedwith PC.
Please disconnect
P2-store from Mac.

Mac mode is memorized even if power is off.
To make Windows mode, press same three keys until USB
LED is turned to Green.

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Reference data of transfer speed.
* Example 4GB P2card.
4 GB P2 Card6‘ 03 “2’ 38 “

1080i 60i

14 Clip

4’ 10”

at Verify ON
at Verify OFFP2 Store internal Disk

* Example 8GB P2 card.
8 GB P2 Card
12’ 12”5’ 30”

1080i 60i

20 Clip

8’ 38”

at Verify ON
at Verify OFF

P2 Store internal Disk

What is VERIFY ON
During copy process all data which
has stored in hard disk has read andverify with original data in P2card.
To get further reliability, werecommend ‘Verify ON’. However ittakes more than double durationcompared to ‘Verify OFF’.

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