<< If you pull the AC plug while it is recording, and do not have
internal batteries installed, everything you have recorded is lost.
Gone. There
is no incremental file closing like the Fostex FR2-LE. It even says so
in the manual. I cannot begin to imagine how engineering thought this
might be okay, but there it is. >>
This is certainly true for any recording via computer to hard drive as
well, so it's not a "feature" exclusive to the Tascam. The system has
to write some data to the header of the audio file and/or the media
directory at the conclusion of the recording in order to have a valid
file. Think of it like the finalizing process for a CD burn, though
much faster. Realistically, pulling the power cord while in record
seems as unlikely as popping open the car hood while on the freeway.
Losing an audio file should not be an unexpected consequence of such
absentmindedness.
Scott Fraser
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