Yamaha CBX-D5 6 Working with Hard Disks

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6 Working with Hard Disks

After connecting your hard disk, setting the SCSI ID, and installing the SCSI terminator,

you will need to format the hard disk before it can be used. If you have already powered

up your system you will notice that there isn’t a disk icon representing the new disk drive

on the desktop. This is because your computer could not mount the hard disk during

boot-up, due to it not being formatted.

Most SCSI hard disks are supplied with their own disk formatting software, so please refer

to the hard disk’s Manual, and format the disk as speciﬁed.

Before disk formatting begins you will probably be asked to supply the SCSI ID of the

hard disk and maybe the required interleave value. The SCSI ID will be the number that

you set on that hard disk using its SCSI ID DIP switch or thumb wheel switch. If you have

to specify an interleave value, check the hard disk’s Manual. Also see the “Adding SCSI

disk drives” section of your computer manual.

When the disk has been formatted correctly and any supplied hard disk driver software has

been installed, a disk icon should appear on your computer’s desktop.

By double clicking on the disk’s icon you will be able to access sound ﬁles stored on the

disk. Sound ﬁles can be copied, deleted, size checked, etc., using the same menu

commands that you would use for your other computer ﬁles.

Because the CBX-D5’s sound ﬁles can be managed just like your other computer ﬁles,

sound ﬁles can be backed up in much the same way using data compression and backup

utilities. However, due to the relatively large size of sound ﬁles, ﬂoppy disks are not the

most effective backup media. Removable hard disks and magneto optical disks are well

suited to this task and commonly available sizes include 44MB, 88MB, 128MB, and

650MB.

Another backup option is to digitally transfer your sound ﬁles to a DAT recorder. Then, if

you want them again in the future, just record them back to the CBX-D5.

There are many computer utilities and desk accessories available for managing ﬁles and

hard disks such as a “ﬁle squashers”, “auto savers”, “hard disk size doublers”, etc. If you

choose to use a utility to work along side the CBX-D5, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN

RISK and no responsibility can be claimed for lost data, system crashes, and hardware

damage.

The CBX-D5 is designed to work with the software described in the System Setup Guide,

why risk losing your valuable audio data by using a “super disk space doubler”, or

“real-time data compressor”?