Korg KORG Pa50 user manual WRITE/DISK in USE LED, Floppy Disk Handling

130Disk edit environment

The WRITE/DISK IN USE LED

16. DISK EDIT ENVIRONMENT

The Disk edit environment is the place where you can man- age files. This edit environment overlaps the current operat- ing mode (Style Play, Song Play, Backing Sequence, Song, Program).

THE WRITE/DISK IN USE LED

When a disk is reading or writing data, the WRITE/DISK IN USE indicator lights up. While in a Disk page, the “Wait” message appears in the display; in this situation, you can’t select a different Disk page (you can, however, select a differ- ent operative mode).

Disk:Save	Wait
ALL

FD SAVE OPEN CLOSE

Warning! Never remove a floppy disk when the WRITE/DISK IN USE LED is turned on!

Note: When loading or saving, you can obtain the maximum speed by loading or saving into the same location as the source data. When loading or saving into a different location, some data restructuring is needed, and the operation becomes slower.

FLOPPY DISK HANDLING

The Pa50 can save most of the data contained in memory on a 3,5” DS-DD disk (720KB capacity) or HD (1,44MB capac- ity), MS-DOS®-formatted. Here are some precautions when handling disks.

Inserting a disk

Insert the disk delicately into the disk drive, with the label facing upwards and the metal part to the front. Press it in as far as it will go.

Note: The Pa50 incorporates a new type of disk drive and you cannot hear “click” when the disk is inserted into place.

Opening for disk insertion

Disk activity indicator

Eject

button

Removing a disk

Before removing a disk, make sure that the disk activity indi- cator is off. If the LED is off, remove the disk by pressing the eject button.

Warning: Do not remove the disk if the disk activity indicator is lit up.

Opening for disk insertion

Disk activity indicator

Eject but-

ton

Write protection

You can protect a disk from the accidental overwriting of data, by opening the write protect hole. To protect the disk from overwriting, slide the protection flap so that the hole becomes visible.

To write-protect the disk: To write-enable the disk: move move the flap and open the the flap to close the hole

hole

Cleaning the heads

The disk drive read/write heads get dirty with use and become less accurate. You can clean the heads with a special cleaning disk, you can purchase from any computer or musi- cal instrument store. Use a 3.5” DS wet type head cleaning disk; and carefully follow the instructions included with it.