Notes On Formatting Disks - Akai DD1500 User Manual

10 - SYSTEM SETUP
The full format and certify procedure takes between 20 minutes and an hour, depending
on the size of the disk. During this time, the DD1500 writes a new, empty directory to the
disk after which, if FORMAT & CERTIFY is selected as the format operation, it goes
through the disk searching for bad blocks and marking them so that they won't be used.
We recommend that you do a full format to prevent the possibility of disk errors later on.
However, if you wish, you can either select FORMAT ONLY as the format operation of you
can just let the format run for 30 seconds or so (enough time to write the directory) and
press EXIT to abort. In most cases, FORMAT ONLY should be sufficient but please note
that Akai cannot accept responsibility for disks that have not been fully formatted that
show errors later on. It is recommended that you do a full format for brand new disks. If
there are no bad blocks shown, there should be no need to do a full format again should
you wish to re-format the disk for re-use at a later date.
As a final reminder...
FORMATTING THE DISK WILL ERASE THE CONTENTS COMPLETELY AND YOU WILL
NOT BE ABLE TO RETRIEVE THEM.
We will come back to the other disk functions later as these are all to do with disk
management (rename, delete, copy disks, etc.) and assumes there is audio on the disk. If
this is the first time you have used the system, we need to get something onto disk before
we can look at these functions.
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NOTES ON FORMATTING DISKS

Version 2.00 - March, 1996