MF Digital USB SD 5000 Platform Series - Manual (Page 11)

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2.9 Operational Tips
Do not remove any flash card which is still in the copying process, when a flash card
is copying the green LED light will flash. Removing a card that has a flashing light
may not only damage the flash card but also the system hardware.
Some users may like to use a USB converter to copy different types of flash cards,
such as CF, SD, or Memory stick etc. This is not recommended, since the quality and
reliability of each USB converter on the market is very different, a poor quality USB
converter may cause the damage to the system hardware and the flash card. When
using a converter the resulting copy quality from the Flash card may also be very
poor.
3.0 System Settings Functions
3.1 Start up menu
The user can select which function is shown first when the duplicator is turned on.
3.2 Copying
3.2.1 Only Data Area
This is also called the “quick copy” mode. The system will automatically analyze the
source flash card’s file format and if the data’s file format is recognizable by the
system (FAT16/32, NTFS, Linux, Ext2, Ext3) it will be able to only copy the data and
not the whole Flash. Otherwise if the file format is non-recognizable the system will
copy the whole flash card including the empty space. For example if a 2GB flash card
which has FAT32 file format and has only 50 MB of data inside, the system will only
copy the 50MB of data.
3.2.2 Whole Media
Setup the duplicator in Whole Media function, the system will copy the whole flash
card, including the empty space and format. This function is used when you have a
flash source which has an unknown file format and you don’t want the system to be
confused by such a format. For example a 2GB flash card which is FAT32 file format
and has only 50 MB of data inside, if you setup “Whole Media” the system will copy
whole 2GB of Flash. It will take long time to copy the source.
3.3 Button Beep
Choose whether to hear a beep when a button is pressed.
3.4 Asynchronous Hold time
This is to set the exit time for asynchronous copying. This is to prevent the user from
mistakenly overwriting a source device when they are about to start a new batch and
have forgotten to stop the previous asynchronous copying job. The default setting is