The General Disk Procedure - GEM GPS3600 Owner's Manual

THE GENERAL DISK PROCEDURE

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Use the following procedure as a reference for
all the Disk operations. Some specific examples
are also explained in this chapter.
1. If you are working with floppy disks, insert
a disk into the drive and press DISK.
If you are working with the Hard Disk simply
press DISK.
2. Use the +/– Page/Bank button to choose
which type of operation you want to per-
form, LOAD, SAVE, ERASE, COPY, MOVE,
UTILITY.
3. If necessary, select the storage device that
you want to work with using the soft but-
tons F1, F2, F3.
Load and Save operations show the Floppy
Disk, Hard Disk and SCSI options. If the SCSI
port has not been enabled with an appropri-
ate optional installation kit, this option will not
be available.
Erase, Copy and Move operations show the
RAM option in addition to Floppy and Hard
Disk.
Utility is an exception, discussed afterwards.
4. Specify the desired command with the di-
rectional arrows (for example, «Load Sin-
gle Song»).
5. Press ENTER to confirm the command and
open the File Selector.
The "Wait Please" message appears for an
instant before opening the File Selector.
The File selector now shows the source di-
rectory which may consist of one or more
BLOCKS to choose from in the left column.
In the right column is the destination direc-
tory representing the sector of RAM corre-
sponding to the file type being handled (in
this case the empty Song memory).
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6. Select a Block and press ENTER to gain ac-
7. If necessary, select the source file and its
8. Press ENTER to confirm your choice.
The disk name is shown at the top of the left
column. If the disk has no name, the name
"UNTITLED" or other will be shown.
cess.
The contents of the opened Block reveals the
file type selected in step 4 (in this case, sev-
eral Songs in numerical order).
At the bottom of both columns, information
regarding the selected file will appear. In this
case, the left column shows the date that the
file was created and its dimensions expressed
in Kb. The right column is blank and repre-
sents the empty destination.
destination.
Empty locations are identified by a broken
line. If you select an existing file, it will be
erased by the incoming file.
You will be prompted with "Are you sure?".
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