RADAR Quickstart Guide, Chapter 2: The Day Before

This "quickstart" guide for the RADAR audio recorder will flatten the learning curve and serve as essential reference for all users. This guide is not designed as a replacement for the official manuals (available from the manufacturer, iZ Technology).

Note that this refers to the 2007 iZ RADAR V Nyquist with system 3.42. Older models in the RADAR family (RADAR I, II, 24 and the Otari version) are slightly different than Silent Way's RADAR V units, but most of this will still apply.

One item to plan ahead for is identifying the hard drive interface and the drive carrier. The drive carrier used by a particular RADAR system may be either SATA-based in a DE110 carrier, or SCSI-based in a DE100 carrier. SATA/DE110 is the newer standard. Inside the carrier is the actual hard drive mechanism. To identify these, look for "DE110" or "DE100" on the carrier. Another distinguishing feature is the number of pins on the back-plane connector; SATA/DE110 has three rows of 25 pins while SCSI/DE100 has four rows of 25 pins. Also, SATA/DE110 has the key slot on the drive carrier, while SCSI/DE100 the key slot on the drive bay/receiver. So,

The rest of this chapter isn't written yet (I skipped ahead to chapters 3 and 4). Here are a few items to help plan ahead when using RADAR:

Silent Way's guide to DB25 cables

My article on road cases for RADAR

The Ultimate Track Sheet and Disk Space Calculator