A Quick Look At The Disk System - Texas Instruments PHP1240 Manual

A QUICK LOOK AT THE DISK SYSTEM

This section describes how you can use the system to initialize a diskette, write a
program, save it on the diskette, run the program to write and read information from
the diskette, and see the catalog of what is on the diskette.
Make sure that power is supplied to all devices. Turn on the external disk drives,
Peripheral Expansion System, monitor, and computer. Insert a new diskette in drive
one (DSKl). Plug the Disk Manager Command Module into the computer.
Press any key to proceed. Then select the Disk Manager module by pressing the
appropriate number key. After a brief title sequence, the following screen appears.
1. FILE COMMANDS
2. DISK COMMANDS
3. DISK TESTS
4. SET ALL COMMANDS FOR
SINGLE DISK PROCESSING
YOUR CHOICE? 1
The number 1 and the cursor (a small rectangle) alternately flash in the space following
the YOUR CHOICE? prompt. Some prompts already have an answer in place. These
preprogrammed responses
prompts. If the answer is the one you want, just press
to give a different response, type the response you want and then press
case, number 1 is the default option. However, you want option 4 because only drive
one is going to be used at this time. Choosing this option speeds up the processes.
Select it by pressing the
option 4 now says SINGLE DISK PROCESSING HAS BEEN INITIALIZED.
To select the second option, Disk Commands, press
following screen appears.
1 CATALOG DISK
2 BACKUP DISK
3 MODIFY DISK NAME
4 INITIAUZE NEW DISK
YOUR CHOICE? 1
Again option number 1 is the preselected default. However, every new diskette must be
initialized so that the computer can use it. Initialize the diskette by pressing
pressing The following screen appears.
ENTER.
MASTER DISK [1-3)? 1
DISK NOT INITIALIZED
NEW DISK NAME?
16
DISK MANAGER
(de fault values)
key and pressing
4
DISK COMMANDS
INITIAUZE NEW DISK
represent common or usual answers to these
ENTER
The screen changes so that what was
ENTER.
and then press
2
to confirm it. If you want
ENTER.
The
ENTER.
4
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and then