Yamaha A5000 Owner's Manual - Page 177

7. DISK COMMANDS 7. DISK COMMANDS Functions for selecting disks, renaming disks, mounting and unmounting hard disks and CD-ROM drives, and specifying the A5000/A4000's own SCSI ID number. Press the [DISK] button and then the [COMMAND/EXIT] button to go to the command menu. Seven pages are provided: SAVE, FORMAT, COPY_VOL (Copy Volume), SYS_FILE (System File), BACKUP, CDDA, LOAD_OS. Selecting a Command [DISK] Button → [COMMAND/EXIT] Button → COMMAND menu Select the desired command from the COMMAND menu. [Operation] 1. Turn Knob 1 to highlight the display line containing the desired command. 2. Press the knob - Knob2 - Knob5 - corresponding to the desired command. Command Execution The command execution procedure is the same for all commands. In all command pages Knob 1 is "EXEC" (EXECUTE) and Knob 5 is "EXEC&CONT" (EXECUTE & CONTINUE). The currently selected command is executed when either Knob 1 (EXEC) or Knob 5 (EXEC&CONT) is pressed. When Knob 1 (EXEC) is used to execute a command, the display that was showing immediately before executing the command is automatically recalled after execution has finished. When Knob 5 (EXEC&CONT) is used to execute a command, the same display is retained after command execution so that you can immediately repeat execution of the same command. Press the [COMMAND/EXIT] button to return to the command menu without executing the command. SAVE [DISK] Button → [COMMAND/EXIT] Button → Knob 1 to highlight display line 1 → Press Knob 2 Save specified data in memory to disk. Refer to "Chapter 9: COMMAND" (page 208) for information about the SAVE command. Turn action Press action Knob 1 Cursor - Knob 2 - Command Select Knob 3 - Command Select Knob 4 - Command Select Knob 5 - Command Select Knob 1 [ Turn] Cursor Positions the cursor. Knob 2 - 5 [ Press] Command Select Selects the corresponding command in the highlighted display line, and display pages. FORMAT [DISK] Button → [COMMAND/EXIT] Button → Knob 1 to highlight display line 1 → Press Knob 3 This command formats floppy disks, hard disks, ZIP drives, etc. When a hard disk or ZIP drive is formatted you can specify the creation of 2 to 8 partitions. • The content of this page will vary depending on the selected Format Type. Formatting Floppy Disks 2DD or 2HD floopy disks are formatted as follows: Use Knob 3 (Format Type) to select FD(Quick), FD(2HD), or FD(2DD). • When a floppy disk is formatted all data it contains is irreversably erased. Use this function with caution! • A floppy disk cannot be formatted if its write-protect tab is open (page 16). • The floppy disk format used by the A5000/A4000 is MS-DOS compatible. q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q A5000/A4000 • Chapter 7 DISK Mode Chapter 7 DISK Mode 177