Yamaha A5000 Owner's Manual - Page 66
Drives, Disks, Volumes, named FD VOLUME when you format the disk.
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1. System Overview Drives The A5000/A4000 has a built-in floppy disk drive, and additional internal hard disk, ZIP, or similar drives can be installed and connected via the SCSI and IDE connectors provided. External storage devices such as hard disks, ZIP drives, CD-ROM drives, MO drives, etc., can be connected via the sampler's built-in SCSI interface. Such drives are referred to as SCSI or IDE devices. Disks The term "disk" refers to the actual storage disk/medium used: floppy disk, ZIP disk, MO disk, etc. New disks must be "formatted" by the A5000/A4000 before they can be used for data storage and retrieval (page 177). Furthermore, hard disks, ZIP disks, and similar media can be "partitioned" to function as up to 8 individual disks. Volumes The A5000/A4000 stores all main-memory data into a volume on the target disk (or disk partition). The volume stores an entire set of main-memory data. A floppy disk can store a single volume only. The A5000/A4000 automatically creates this volume (named "FD VOLUME") when you format the disk. If you are using a SCSI disk, then you are free to create multiple volumes, so that you can store a different set of data onto each. The following illustration shows the relationship between disks and volumes. Floppy Disk Volume ("FD VOLUME") Hard Disk Volume Volume Volume Volume Volume Partitioned Hard Disk Disk 1 (Partition 1) Disk 2 (Partition 2) Disk 3 (Partition 3) Volume Volume Volume Volume Volume Volume Volume Volume Volume Volume Volume Volume The point to remember here is that each disk volume corresponds exactly to a full set of main-memory data. As the next illustration shows, the A5000/A4000 saves all main-memory data into a single volume. When you reload the volume, you restore the main memory to its exact state at the time of the data save. 66 Chapter 3 The A5000/A4000 System & Features • A5000/A4000 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