Roland Vs-880 important safety instructions Use with a Zip drive, Connecting a Zip drive

Chapter 6 Use with a Zip drive

Disk drives such as hard disks or magneto-optical disks can be connected to the SCSI connector of the VS-880.

This chapter will explain the procedure for using the VS-880 with a Zip drive in particular. Read this chapter when you wish to record a performance on a Zip drive. If you are using the VS-880 with a hard disk or magneto-optical disk instead, read ÒZip driveÓ as Òhard diskÓ or Òmagneto-opti- cal disk.Ó

Connecting a Zip drive

Zip drives can be connected to the SCSI connector of the VS-880. For details on how to make Zip drive connections, and how to make the necessary settings, refer to ÒUsing an external disk driveÓ (p.130).

Initializing the disk (Drive Initialize)

Before using a new disk drive or a disk drive that was used by another device, you must initialize the disk drive so that it can be used by the VS-880. Use the following procedure.

1.Insert a disk into the Zip drive.

2.Press [SYSTEM].

If a message with a question mark such as ÒSYS System PRM?Ó does not appear, press [SYSTEM] once again.

3.Use PARAMETER [ ][ ] to get the “SYS Drive Initialize” display, and press [YES].

4.The display will indicate “Init.Drive,” so use the TIME/VALUE dial to select the disk drive that you wish to initialize (IDE, SC0–SC7).

The number of the disk drive indicates its SCSI ID num- ber.

5.Press PARAMETER [ ] to get the “PhysicalFmt” dis- play, and use the TIME/VALUE dial to select whether or not the disk will be physically formatted.

If the disk drive has been used by another device, select ÒOn.Ó If the disk drive is new, physical formatting has probably been performed, so in this case select ÒOff.Ó

6.Press PARAMETER [ ] to get the “Partition” display. Use the TIME/VALUE dial to select the size of the parti- tion. Normally you will select “1000 MB.”

7.Press [YES] to get the “SYS Init.SC5:U OK ?” display.

Press [YES], and a message of ÒSYS Init.SC5: U Sure?Ó will ask for confirmation. Press [YES] once again to exe- cute initialization. To cancel initialization, press [NO].

When initialization ends correctly, the VS-880 will auto- matically re-start, and enter Play condition.

*When initializing a large-capacity disk drive, be aware that some time will be required. This is not a malfunction. The progress of initialization will be shown in the display, so be sure not to turn the power off until initialization is complete.

Select the Zip drive as the recording destination (Drive Select)

If you wish to record a song on another disk drive or parti- tion, use the following procedure to switch the current drive.

1.If you wish to specify a removable disk drive as the cur- rent drive, insert the disk.

2.Press [SYSTEM].

If a message with a question mark such as ÒSYS System PRM?Ó does not appear, press [SYSTEM] once again.

3.Use PARAMETER [ ][ ] to get the “SYS Drive Select” display, and press [YES]. When you press [YES], the connected disk drives will be scanned.

4.Use the TIME/VALUE dial to select the disk drive.

The internal hard disk is displayed as ÒIDE,Ó and exter- nal disk drives are displayed as ÒSC0ÐSC7Ó (the num- ber is the SCSI ID number). Numbers following the disk drive name are partition numbers. For example to select the Zip drive, specify ÒSC5:0Ó.

5.When you have made your selection, press [YES].

The display will indicate ÒSYS Change to,Ó so press [YES] once again to execute the change of current drive. To cancel, press [NO].

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