Tascam 2488MKII Warning and status messages, No, Action, Message, Meaning

Appendix

Warning and status messages

The following is a list of warning messages that may be displayed by the 2488MKII, together with a note of their possible cause, and the actions you can take when they occur.

In the messages, keys to be pressed are enclosed in brackets ([YES/ENTER] or [NO/EXIT]) and menu items are written in uppercase/capital letters (DELETE UNUSED).

No.	Message	Meaning	Action
	Cannot do this	The hard disk is being accessed for playback	Press NO/EXIT, stop the transport and retry
	when not	or recording, so the selected action cannot	the operation.
1	stopped. Stop	be performed.
	the transport.
	Press [EXIT].
	Cannot find	Digital audio input mode has been selected,	Press NO/EXIT and check the digital connec-
	digital input.	but the 2488MKII cannot detect a valid digital	tion. If the connection is good, it is possible
2	Check your	audio input.	that the signal is the wrong type. The 2488MKII
	system set-up.		expects a signal in S/PDIF (IEC60958
			Consumer use) format at 44.1 kHz. It cannot
	Press [EXIT].		accept compressed audio formats, etc.
	Can’t duplicate	When editing tracks, you have selected the	Press NO/EXIT and select a different source or
	to the same	same track as both source and destination for a	destination track as appropriate.
3	track as the	duplicate operation.
	source.
	Press [EXIT]
	Digital input	Because digital audio input is selected, the	Press NO/EXIT and turn off digital input (the
	is selected.	following functions cannot take place: Tuner,	MIXER section of the PREFERENCES menu)
4	Cannot do this	pitch and SSA functions, MTC slave operations,	before proceeding with the operation that
	operation now.	jog and trim functions, audio CD operations).	produced this message.
	Press [EXIT].
	Disc is already	An attempt has been made to erase a disc	Press NO/EXIT and replace the disc if necessary.
	blank. Can’t	(CD-RW) that is already blank.
5	erase it.
	Press [EXIT].
	Disc is blank.	An attempt has been made to finalize a blank	Press NO/EXIT and replace the disc if
	Can’t finalize	disc (CD-R or CD-RW).	necessary.
6	this disc.
	Press [EXIT].
	File too big to	The selected WAV or Standard MIDI File cannot	Press NO/EXIT and delete a song (SONG
	import. Choose	be imported into the current song as there is not	-> DELETE) to free up space on the partition
7	another file	enough disk space on the current partition.	(note that this cannot be undone).
	for import.
	Press [EXIT].
	File too big to	The data selected for export to the FAT partition	Press NO/EXIT, use the USB OPEN function
	export. Choose	is too big (there is not sufficient space on the	to manage the files (move or delete unwanted
	another file	FAT partition).	ones) on the FAT partition from a computer
8	for export.		and retry. Alternatively, if there is no wanted
			data on the FAT partition, use the 2488MKII to
	Press [EXIT].		reformat the FAT partition (all data on the FAT
			partition is irrecoverably lost). The maximum
			file size is 4 GB.

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