Roland VS-1824 Using Hard Drives, General Information Regarding Hard Drives, Drive Partitioning

Chapter 17 Using Hard Drives

This chapter explains basic concepts, internal structure, and basic operation regarding the use of hard drives with the VS-1824. Read this chapter thoroughly to gain a better understanding of how the VS-1824 operates.

General Information Regarding Hard Drives

The VS-1824 saves all of the data, such as performance data, mixing data, system data, etc., on a hard disk drive.

The internal hard disk is not removable.

Drive Partitioning

Ex. 2: When the disk drive is 10 GB, and the partition size is 1000 MB.

fig.01-04

	Disk Drive
	(10GB)
Partition 0		Partition 1
(1000MB)		(1000MB)
Partition 2		Partition 3
(1000MB)		(1000MB)
Partition 4		Partition 5
(1000MB)		(1000MB)
Partition 6		Partition 7
(1000MB)		(1000MB)
unusable
(2000MB)

The internal hard drive has 5 partitions. The size of each partition is 2000 MB. If you would like to change partition size, please refer to drive initializing on p. 229.

The VS-1824 is able to manage 500 MB, 1000 MB or 2000 MB of disk space at once. If you use a disk drive with a capacity that is greater than this, you will need to divide it into two or more areas.

Each of these area is referred as a “partition.” Up to eight partitions can be created in a single disk drive.

Ex. 1: When the disk drive is 10 GB, and the partition size is 2000 MB.

fig.01-05

	Disk Drive
	(10GB)
Partition 0		Partition 1
(2000MB)		(2000MB)
Partition 2		Partition 3
(2000MB)		(2000MB)
Partition 4
(2000MB)

Each partition on the VS-1824’s disk drive is treated as an independent drive, and automatically given a partition number (0–7). When a single hard disk has multiple partitions, you can specify which partition drive will be used (“Drive Select,” p. 228). This selected disk drive partition used is referred to as the “current drive.”

*If you wish to use hard disks or song data with both the VS- 1824 and the VS-880/1680/880EX/890/VSR-880, there will be limitations as to what you can do due to factors such as differing partition sizes and numbers of tracks. For more detailed information, please see “Drive Compatibility,” p. 245.

VS-1880's song data is identical to that of the VS-1824.

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