Korg Kaptivator

sadist%vince · Post by **sadist%vince** » Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:02 pm

Does anyone here use one? I cannot get any answers from Korg support on this apparently they don't even have one at the office (after years of calling and asking questions you think they would purchase one) no one there knows how to use one either. WTF I have called repeatedly and end up always being stuck on hold for hours til they close on 3 occasions now just so they don't have to talk to me and try to figure it out. Anyway I figure someone here has to be smarter that the people Korg hires and may be able to help us out with backing this bitch up cause we are scared to death we are going to loose the video that is crucial to our live show during the transfer. Has anyone here backed up the Kaptivator successfully and which method did you use to do it? Thanks in advance.
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Thoraldus · Post by **Thoraldus** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 2:18 am

I guess if I were you I would just remove the 40gb IDE drive from the Korg Kaptivator and use any number of drive cloning techniques to make an exact copy of it. You can even buy a device that will turn your 2.5" drive into a USB drive so you could just dump everything to another computer.

Here's one ...

http://www.bixnet.com/usbporenfor2.html

Thoraldus · Post by **Thoraldus** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 2:30 am

Here's a standalone IDE to IDE hd duplicator.

http://us.startech.com/product/UNIDUPDO ... cator-Dock

Amazon has it for $180 free shipping

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00348K5XW/ref ... _mp-998-20

jerrythek · Post by **jerrythek** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 3:48 am

Have you read Pg. 28 of the manual?

It describes that the Kaptivator backs up data via DV I/O, meaning that you "play" the data back out to be recorded by a DV camera. And it can be restored the same way, by playing the DV camera back into the unit.

http://www.korg.com/uploads/Support/kap ... 720000.pdf

Regards.

sadist%vince · Post by **sadist%vince** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 3:58 am

I did what it said on page 28 of the manual and it looks like it recorded what was in front of me. I don't know how to check if it worked without jeopardizing loosing the stuff I have on the Kaptivator. How can I be sure that it worked properly?

jerrythek · Post by **jerrythek** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 4:06 am

Not sure - did you try "watching" the DV camera data?

I have never heard of anyone having a problem with this function, but that is no guarantee.

Thoraldus · Post by **Thoraldus** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:29 pm

If you are at all concerned about a catastrophic hard drive failure, I would still pursue creating a clone of the hard drive that you could just pop in to get back in business. From the manual it sounds like having KORG repair a hard drive failure could be a costly and time consuming process.

"If the hard disk has been damaged due to incorrect operation, power failure, or accidental interruption of the power supply, a fee may be charged for replacement even if this device is still within its warranty period."

X-Trade · Post by **X-Trade** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:33 pm

Thoraldus wrote:If you are at all concerned about a catastrophic hard drive failure, I would still pursue creating a clone of the hard drive that you could just pop in to get back in business. From the manual it sounds like having KORG repair a hard drive failure could be a costly and time consuming process.

"If the hard disk has been damaged due to incorrect operation, power failure, or accidental interruption of the power supply, a fee may be charged for replacement even if this device is still within its warranty period."

It sounds just like they are talking about replacing the hard disk drive and the associated labour costs.
FYI it can cost tens of thousands and require specialised labs to recover data from a trashed drive.

So I doubt if you did have a drive failure then even then you would not get your data back.

Backing up the entire drive to something else sounds like a good idea.

Thoraldus · Post by **Thoraldus** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 6:59 pm

X-Trade wrote:
Thoraldus wrote:If you are at all concerned about a catastrophic hard drive failure, I would still pursue creating a clone of the hard drive that you could just pop in to get back in business. From the manual it sounds like having KORG repair a hard drive failure could be a costly and time consuming process.

"If the hard disk has been damaged due to incorrect operation, power failure, or accidental interruption of the power supply, a fee may be charged for replacement even if this device is still within its warranty period."
It sounds just like they are talking about replacing the hard disk drive and the associated labour costs.
FYI it can cost tens of thousands and require specialised labs to recover data from a trashed drive.

So I doubt if you did have a drive failure then even then you would not get your data back.

Backing up the entire drive to something else sounds like a good idea.

Exactly!

Bowmoney · Post by **Bowmoney** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:11 pm

since all it does is record video, why not make a DVD?

sadist%vince · Post by **sadist%vince** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 12:28 am

Because there is a motion sequence code it needs. I am about to try to dump it back and see if it worked split up on 2 tapes I really hope it goes ok.