HP QMS 1660 manual 194

Storage

Options

Using the Printer Configuration Menu

After you have accessed the Administration/Disk Operations menu, press the control panel keys in the order shown in the following table. The printer responds by displaying a status message in the message window.

»Note: You may need to press the Next key one or more times to advance through the list of selections or options.

Use this	to...	The message window
key. . .		reads...
Select	Access the Administration/Disk	DISK OPERATIONS
	Operations/Format Disk menu.	FORMAT	DISK
Select	Access the Format Disk/Dsk#: menu.	FORMAT	DISK
		DSK#: x
Next	Scroll through the list of attached disks.	FORMAT	DISK
		DSK: x
Select	Select the disk and display a format	FORMAT	DISK
	confirmation message.	ARE YOU SURE?
Select	Begin the formatting process. The hard	FORMAT	DISK
	disk is formatted while the system	FORMATTING...
	reboots.
	You are informed when the formatting	FORMAT	DISK
	process is complete. The printer then	FORMAT	COMPLETE
	reboots, and a start-up page prints (if
	enabled).

»Note: After an unformatted disk is formatted and the FORMAT COMPLETE message displays, you must turn the printer off and back on again before the printer can recognize the disk.

Using a Hard Disk

Before you can use a formatted hard disk, you must increase the size of the disk cache. The way you do this depends on how much memory your printer has.

nIf your printer has 12 MB of RAM, enable disk swapping (Administration/Memory/Enable Disk Swap menu), which

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