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6.“STORE Current ?” appears in the display. Press [ENTER/YES] to store the current song; otherwise press [EXIT/NO].

During the Drive Check process, the progress of the operation is shown in the display. When the procedure is finished, the “Result List” will be displayed. If any errors are found, they will be reported here. Songs that do not contain any errors are indicated by “OK,” songs containing errors are indicated by “ERR.” If all of your songs are not displayed, use the TIME/VALUE dial to view the remaining songs. Do not turn off the power until the operation is completed. When you are finished viewing the result list, press [ENTER/YES] to return to the main Play screen.

To Cancel Drive Check

You can use the following procedure to cancel the Drive Check.

1.Press [EXIT/NO]. “Cancel ?” appears in the display.

2.Press [ENTER/YES]. Drive Check is canceled.

If Errors are Found

If the Drive Check function indicates that there are errors within the data on the drive, it is possible to erase the portion of the data that contains the error while keeping the remaining data as intact as possible. This can be very useful if you cannot access all of the songs on a drive because of an error in one of the songs.

This procedure does not correct the disk error. All error locations will be erased. This means that, depending on the location in which the error occurred, a take that was recorded may no longer be playable, Automix data may be lost, or the entire song itself may even be erased. If the error has occurred in the system or song list, the probability of this happening is especially high.

1.After the Drive Check procedure is finished, press [ENTER/YES].

“You’ll Lose Data” will be displayed.

2.Press [ENTER/YES] to proceed with the recover function, or press [EXIT/NO] to cancel the operation. After the recover operation is finished, the results will be displayed. Songs that were partially altered are indicated by “Adj” and songs that have been deleted are indicated by “Del.”

3.Press [ENTER/YES] to return to the main Play screen.

Chapter 17 Using Hard Drives

Check Drive Reliability using Surface Scan

When initializing a hard drive, you can confirm that the read and write functions in all the drive partitions are operating correctly. This is referred to as a “Surface Scan.” If there are any places on the drive where the reading or writing of data cannot be performed, the VS-1824 registers this as unusable memory. The VS-1824 subsequently avoids that area during recording or playback.

Performing this procedure deletes all contents saved on the drive. Conduct this check when initializing a newly purchased drive or a drive that had previously been used with a personal computer or other device. Be sure to make a backup copy of any songs on the drive that you want to keep before carrying out a Surface Scan.

1.Follow the procedure described in “Initializing (Formatting) the Drive” (p. 222), and set “Surface Scan” to “On.” After the drive has been initialized, Surface Scan begins immediately.

*The Surface Scan procedure takes time. This is not a malfunction. For example, the time required to conduct Surface Scan on a 100 MB Zip disk is approximately 10 minutes. The time it will take to conduct Surface Scan on your drive is based on the size (capacity) of the disk. The progress of the Surface Scan procedure is shown in the display.

*Once the drive is initialized and Surface Scan has begun, you may cancel Surface Scan by performing the following procedure.

1.Press [EXIT/NO]. “Cancel ?” appears in the display.

2.Press [ENTER/YES]. Surface Scan is now canceled. Note that any unusable memory found up to that point is not registered by the VS-1824.

3.The VS-1824 restarts automatically.

2.When Surface Scan is completed, one of the following messages appears in the display.

“– Complete –”:

This drive is good to use. All memory areas were found to be usable.

“_______ Defect”:

The underlined portion will indicate the number of unusable memory locations in this drive. The larger this number, the lower the reliability of this drive.

“File System Err”:

A read or write failure has occurred in a location that stores basic data used by the VS-1824 for recording and playback. This drive cannot be used by the VS-1824.

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