Yamaha A3000 Owner's Manual - Page 254

COMMAND Pages FORMAT Formats the selected SCSI disk. (Fast format) PLAY EDIT REC DISK UTILITY PROGRAM SAMPLE EASY EDIT TRIM / LOOP MAP / OUT FILTER RECORD SETUP METER PROGRAM SAMPLE SEQUENCE TOTAL EQ PANEL PLAY SEQUENCE EFFECT EG EFFECT VOLUME MASTER SETUP LFO EXT CTRL DISK SYSTEM CONTROL MIDI / CTRL MONITOR IMPORT MIDI Press the COMMAND key, then turn Knob 1 to select >FORMAT. Turn action Push action Knob 1 Knob 2 - Knob 3 - Knob 4 - Knob 5 - Use this command to fast-format and partition a SCSI disk. Important • Formatting a disk causes loss of all data on the disk. • You can divide the disk into as many as 8 partitions when formatting it, but you cannot set specific partition sizes. The A3000 automatically generates equally sized partitions. • The A3000 cannot use partitions larger than 512 megabytes. Be sure to set enough partitions to keep partition size to 512MB or less. • This operation applies fast formatting (logical formatting) only. If you need to format a disk that was previously used with another device, please use the PHYS_FMT (physical format) command instead (254). FYI • You cannot use this command to format floppy disks. To format a floppy disk, use the FD_FMT command page. (258) • If you need to format a specific partition only, use the PART_FMT command␣ (256). • The A3000 uses a proprietary disk format for SCSI disks. The format is compatible with the Yamaha A7000, but is not recognized by computers or other such devices. 252 Chapter 7 DISK Mode