Fostex owner manual Formatting a disk, Connect the D-108’s power cable to the AC outlet

D-108 Quick Operation Guide

Formatting a disk

After installing the hard disk in the D-108, you need to format the hard disk for recording and playback. (This applies to new disks and those that have been used with a computer.)

Connect the D-108’s power cable to the AC outlet.

<Note>

Be sure to connect the power cable to an AC outlet of the voltage specified in the User’s Guide.

Turn on the power to the D-108.

The display indicates the ROM version and date, messages [Initializing...], [Current IDE Drv], [model name], then [Unformat!], and finally indicates the Disk format menu. (“****” represents the name of the hard disk model.)

								SETUP
OL								FORMAT
0										Flashing
6
3
9								44.1kHz
12
18
24
30									SURE?
42
∞
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8

Press the EXECUTE/YES key.

The Record mode selection appears and the [?] mark and [SURE?] flash on the display. This means that the D-108 is ready to format the installed E-IDE hard disk in [8track format] Record mode.

								SETUP
OL								FORMAT
3										Flashing
0
6								44.1kHz
9
12
18
24
30									SURE?
42
∞				5
1	2	3	4		6	7	8

Press the EXECUTE/YES while holding down the RECORD button.

The size of unformatted area on the hard disk appears on the display, and counts down as the formatting progresses. (The following example shows a disk with 2.0GB of unformatted space.)

Also, the segments in the “∞” column of the level meters light up, and they turn off one by one starting from the right end. It will take a while to complete formatting, especially if you are formatting a large-capacity disk.

This indicates the size of the unformatted area on the hard disk.

								SETUP
								REMAIN
OL								FORMAT
0
3
6								44.1kHz
9
12
18
24
30
42
∞
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8

The segments turn off one by one from the right end as the formatting progresses.

When the format operation is complete, the screen changes as follows and disk operation stops.

OL

0

3

6

9

12

18

24

30

42

∞

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

SETUP

FORMAT

44.1kHz

COMPLETED!

When the format operation is

complete, [COMPLETED!] appears and the disk stops.

Track indicators 1-8 light up.

8