On Fri, 9 May 2008 03:03:26 -0700 (PDT), CJB
put finger to keyboard and composed:

Please can someone advise me. I have a DMR-E95 DVD recorder with hard
disk. The hard disk is nearly full of archived home movies. The disk
is also starting to have problems with sound. I need to back up the
contents to a multi-media server on my home network. How can I do this
please? Backing up to hundreds of DVD-RAM disks is not an option - too
expensive and time consuming. Thank you. Chris B.

I can't see any better way than to copy the movies to DVD-RAM and then
on to your home PC. As your HD's capacity is 160GB, I would think that
you would need to do this 40 times at most.

Alternatively, you could stick your HD in a USB enclosure and try to
image it. I suspect, however, that the file system may be proprietary.

FWIW I've tried to attach my Tevion DVD recorder's hard drive to a PC,
but it uses a foreign LSI Logic OS (CLsiPMABS ???) and file system
(TFS2 ???). In fact it doesn't even appear to have a partition table
or MBR, and the data appear to be stored from top down, ie starting
from the higher numbered LBAs, not from LBA 0.

This URL (Hacking the Salora HDD2510) is an analysis of the file
system of a cheap DVD recorder:
http://jeroent.com/salora/?cat=4

Maybe someone has done a similar analysis for Panasonic DVDRs ???

- Franc Zabkar
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