Roland VS-1824 owner manual Initializing Formatting the Drive, 222, To initialize a new drive

Chapter 17 Using Hard Drives

Initializing (Formatting) the Drive

A new drive, or a drive that was used by another device, cannot be used on the VS-1824 as is. You must initialize the drive so it can be used by the VS-1824. When a drive is initialized, all existing data on that drive is erased—all of its contents are irretrievably lost. Check any such drive you plan to initialize to make sure it does not contain anything you don’t want deleted. Drives used with the VS-1824 cannot be used on other devices, such as personal computers.

*If you accidentally delete data, that data cannot be restored to its previous state. Roland Corporation assumes no liability concerning such loss of data.

CAUTION: If you are using a drive or disk that has been partitioned, you will not be able to choose a particular partition to initialize. When you initialize a drive, the whole drive and all of its partitions will be initialized at the same time.

To initialize a new drive:

1.Confirm that power to the drive and the VS-1824 are turned on.

2.If you are using a removable type drive insert a disk into the drive.

3.Press [PLAY (DISPLAY)].

4.Hold [SHIFT] and press [F6 (UTILITY)].

The Utility menu icon appears in the display.

5.Press [F6 (DrIni)].

If “DrIni” does not appear in the display above [F6], first press [PAGE] until “DrIni” is displayed, and then press [F6 (DrIni)].

6.Use [ ], [ ], [ ], and [ ] to move the cursor, and use the TIME/VALUE dial to set each value.

Init Drive (Initialize Drive)

Select the drive (IDE, SCSI0-SCSI7). “IDE” indicates the internal hard drive, and “SCSI” indicates external SCSI drives. For example, use “SCSI5” or “SCSI6” to select a Zip drive, depending on the Zip drive’s settings.

Partition

Select the partition size (500 MB, 1000 MB, 2000 MB). In most cases, select “2000 MB.”

Physical Format

Select whether or not to use physical formatting. For new drives, or drives that have been used by another device, this should be set to “On.”

*If you are initializing a Zip 250 MB cartridge, set Physical Format to “Off.”

Surface Scan

This confirms that the read and write functions in all of the drive’s partitions are operating correctly when the drive is initialized. In normal circumstances, set this to “Off.” When you specifically want to conduct a test of the read/write functions, set this to “On”.

The function buttons work as shown:

[F1 (DrSel)]:

Displays a directory of the currently connected drives.

Use [ ], [ ], [ ], and [ ] to move the cursor to the drive you want to initialize.

[F3 (Info)]:

Displays the drive information.

[F4 (Exec)]:

Executes initialization of the selected drive.

[F6 (EXIT)]:

Exits the screen.

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