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Hard Drive Maintenance

When a drive is initialized, its entire contents are irretrievably lost. Make sure you make backups of any songs on the drive that you want to keep before you use drive initialize.

*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 that you wish to initialize. When you carry out drive initialization, the whole drive and all its partitions will be initialized at once.

Be aware that initializing a drive may take some time. This is not a malfunction. For example, when physical format is turned “On,” the time required to format a 100MB Zip disk is approximately 10 minutes. The progress of initialization will be shown in the display. Be sure not to turn the power off until initialization is complete.

Drive Initialize

As you use a hard drive, the data on the drive is recorded and erased repeatedly in whatever space is currently available, and the data may become fragmented on the hard drive. When this happens, the message “Error Drive Too Slow” may appear in the display during certain operations. In order to achieve maximum performance from the drive, perform the Initializing (Formatting) procedure described on this page.

Chapter 17 Using Hard Drives

Drive Initialize with Physical Formatting

Physical formatting is useful for new removable media and for circumstances where you are experiencing problems with your hard drive that cannot be corrected by normal initialization.

To initialize a drive using Physical Format:

1.	Confirm that the power of the drive and the VS-1824 is
	turned on.
2.	Insert a disk into the drive if you are using a removable
	type 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)].
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6.	Use [	], [	], [	], and [	] to move the
	cursor, and use the TIME/VALUE dial to set each value					17

described below.

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” to select a Zip Drive.

The SCSI ID number of the internal CD-RW drive is fixed at “0.”

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, new removable media, or drives that have been used by another device, this must be set to “On.” Also set this to “On” if you are experiencing problems with your hard drive that cannot be corrected by normal initialization.

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