Roland KR-11 owner manual Handling floppy disks

KR-11 Owner’s Manual—Important notes

•Remove any disk from the drive before powering up or down.

•To prevent damage to the disk drive’s heads, always try to hold the floppy disk in a level position (not tilted in any direction) while inserting it into the drive.

❏Handling floppy disks

•Floppy disks contain a plastic disk with a thin magnetic coating. Microscopic precision is required to enable stor- age of large amounts of data on such a small surface area. To preserve their integrity, please observe the following when handling floppy disks:

•Never touch the magnetic medium inside the disk.

•Do not use or store floppy disks in dirty or dusty areas.

•Do not subject floppy disks to temperature extremes (e.g., direct sunlight in an enclosed vehicle). Recom- mended temperature range: 10 to 50° C (50 to 122° F).

•Do not expose floppy disks to strong magnetic fields, such as those generated by loudspeakers.

•Floppy disks have a “WRITE PROTECT” tab which can protect the disk from accidental erasure. It is recom- mended that the tab be kept in the PROTECT position, and moved to the WRITE position only when you wish to write new data onto the disk.

Rear side of the disk

WRITE

(you can save data to the disk)

Protect tab

PROTECT

(you cannot save data)

•Disks containing important performance data for this unit should always be locked (have their write protect tab slid to the “Protect” position) before you insert them into the drive of another instrument (except the PR-300, or a product of the HP-G, MT, KR, or Atelier families), or into a computer’s drive. Otherwise, when performing any disk operations (such as checking the contents of the disk, or loading data), you risk rendering the disk unreadable by the KR-11’s disk drive.

•The identification label should be firmly affixed to the disk. If the label comes loose while the disk is in the drive, it may be difficult to remove the disk.

•Put the disk back into its case for storage.

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