Canon Imagerunner File System / OS

[dwtech]

Does anyone know what file system the Imagerunners use on their internal hard drives (FAT, EXT3, etc)? Also, what operating system do the Canon Imagerunners run on?

[mrfixit51]

No idea what OS or file structure is in use,, requires proprietary tools and software to service the box,, so I don't bother myself with that information. What do you hope to achieve with that knowledge if you had it? Enquiring minds ya' know

[Oze]

The older machines using IDE drives you can format using FAT32.
On the newer machines that use SATA drives I would imagine that you can format the drives using NTFS.
Now if you're asking the question because you want to take the drives out of an Imagerunner and use a pc to format the drives via FDISK for example you may run into a snag.
On the older IDE drives you find that there are 5 partitions...if you use FDISK to format the drive and set up a single Primary DOS partition for example..it may not work at all when you return it to the Imagerunner.
We used to try this all the time in the olden days of iR2200's....sometimes it worked and other times not at all...the results were too sporadic so we stopped trying.

[ymmtech]

Need disk utility program to open physical sector 0. Partition info store here.
And it is small endian.

look at earlier post:
Canon os

Enjoy.

[manuals4you]

Need disk utility program to open physical sector 0. Partition info store here.
And it is small endian.

look at earlier post:
Canon os

Enjoy.

Go buy it.

[ymmtech]

The HD descriptor is locate at offset address 432 to 511 of sector 0.
sorry for my poor English.
I meant you need some kind of disk utilities tool to view contents of IR HDD.