Jasonbcarter 2 solutions Jul 23, 2010 The only solution I know of is: turning off the unit, then simultaneously pressing Track Edit, Cursor up, and power button until the unit asks "are you sure?" This will unfortunately erase the hard drive. This solution by jasonbcarter was copy/pasted from a post on fixya By Nancy Savage. This solution re-formats the hard drive, maintaining 3 partitions. I used this solution and it worked. I was able to start recording again, but I lost all tracks of the six songs that had not yet received their final mix. Proves the importance of BACKING-UP YOUR INDIVIDUAL TRACKS, each track as a .WAV file (per TEAC/TASCAM technical support) using a USB connection to your COMPUTER. Then those tracks can be RESTORED to the newly re-formatted Disk of the DP-02 using the Restore feature of the recorder. Would've saved me hours and hours of re-recording, and helped to save face -- although, luckily, everyone was fine about re-recording. How fortunate I am and lesson learned. P.S. DP-02 labor fees are $70.00/hr.
The TASCAM DP-02 Owner's Manual has no reference to a mount error in it. There are many people online complaining about mount errors on their computers, mac and win, when hooking the tascam up via USB, but your post suggests this error was on the DP-02 itself, is that correct?
I get less than a dozen hits of people asking this question online, and absolutely no useful answers or responses.
Do you have the DP-02CF model? If so, it may be a faulty CompactFlash Type I card that it is trying to mount. If there is a disk in the drive, I'd remove that cd in case it is trying to mount a bad disk.
I can most likely help troubleshoot a troublesome USB-to-computer connection, but otherwise I'm going to have to refer you to TASCAM customer service, (although I must say the forums I've perused have little positive to say about them.) TASCAM support in the UK (a guess, but you did use the term 'mains' in your post) is provided by TEAC UK Limited at +44-8451-302511 or www.tascam.co.uk.
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Jasonbcarter 2 solutions Jul 23, 2010
The only solution I know of is: turning off the unit, then simultaneously pressing Track Edit, Cursor up, and power button until the unit asks "are you sure?" This will unfortunately erase the hard drive.
This solution by jasonbcarter was copy/pasted from a post on fixya By Nancy Savage. This solution re-formats the hard drive, maintaining 3 partitions. I used this solution and it worked. I was able to start recording again, but I lost all tracks of the six songs that had not yet received their final mix. Proves the importance of BACKING-UP YOUR INDIVIDUAL TRACKS, each track as a .WAV file (per TEAC/TASCAM technical support) using a USB connection to your COMPUTER. Then those tracks can be RESTORED to the newly re-formatted Disk of the DP-02 using the Restore feature of the recorder. Would've saved me hours and hours of re-recording, and helped to save face -- although, luckily, everyone was fine about re-recording. How fortunate I am and lesson learned. P.S. DP-02 labor fees are $70.00/hr.
The TASCAM DP-02 Owner's Manual has no reference to a mount error in it. There are many people online complaining about mount errors on their computers, mac and win, when hooking the tascam up via USB, but your post suggests this error was on the DP-02 itself, is that correct?
I get less than a dozen hits of people asking this question online, and absolutely no useful answers or responses.
Do you have the DP-02CF model? If so, it may be a faulty CompactFlash Type I card that it is trying to mount. If there is a disk in the drive, I'd remove that cd in case it is trying to mount a bad disk.
I can most likely help troubleshoot a troublesome USB-to-computer connection, but otherwise I'm going to have to refer you to TASCAM customer service, (although I must say the forums I've perused have little positive to say about them.) TASCAM support in the UK (a guess, but you did use the term 'mains' in your post) is provided by TEAC UK Limited at +44-8451-302511 or www.tascam.co.uk.
Best of luck & I hope that helps.