Yamaha A3000 Owner's Manual - Page 256

COMMAND Pages PHYS_FMT (Physical Format) Formats the selected SCSI disk. (Physical 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 >PHYS_FMT. Turn action Push action Knob 1 Knob 2 - Knob 3 - Knob 4 - Knob 5 - Use this command to physically 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 physically formats the disk (low-level format). The operation takes longer than the fast-format that you can execute from the FORMAT command page (252). FYI • You cannot use this command to format floppy disks. To format a floppy disk, use the FD_FMT command page. (258) • 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. 254 Chapter 7 DISK Mode