File List Dialog - Kurzweil K2600 Musician's Manual

Disk Mode

File List Dialog

The Sleep Soft Button
Many SCSI devices will ÒsleepÓ when theyÕve been idle for a few minutes. In other words, the
disk will stop spinning, in order to save power and reduce wear. The K2600 lets you tell your
SCSI devices to sleep. Just press the Sleep soft button, and if your devices have this feature, they
will sleep. This is particularly useful in a quiet studio situation.
Any Disk-mode operation will ÒwakeÓ the device again. The K2600 will ask you to wait while
the deviceÕs disk starts spinning. As soon as the disk is spinning at full speed, the K2600 will
execute the operation you selected. Some SCSI devices automatically sleep when they power up.
(A device of this type usually provides a way to override this feature; check its manual.) Any
Disk-mode operation will wake a disk in this case, as well.
File List Dialog
The Þle list dialog appears when you select a disk function (such as Load or Rename) to operate
on one or more Þles on a disk. Here is a typical Þle list dialog, for the Load function:
Dir:\||||||||||||Sel:0/3|||||Index:|||1|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
||||File|to|load:BASSOON||.K26|||3456K||
|||||||||||||||||MAY25||||||||(dir)|||||
|||||||||||||||||PERC|||||.K26||||101K||
|Total:3557K||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Select||Root||Parent||Open|||OK|||Cancel
When you enter this dialog, the K2600 displays the contents of the current directory, in an
alphabetized scrolling list. If the current directory cannot be located (for example, if youÕve
changed ßoppies or removable hard disks), the K2600 displays the current diskÕs root directory.
The root directory will also be selected if the disk was just chosen by the CurrentDisk parameter
on the Disk-mode page (remember that the current directory is always set to the top level when
the CurrentDisk parameter is changed, or if the K2600 has just been powered on).
The display for all disks (including ßoppy) shows the 3-character extension of all Þles in the
directory (except directories themselves). Extensions are created when the Þle is saved by the
K2600. You cannot modify the extensions on the K2600. This is because the K2600 uses the
extensions to tell it what kind of data the Þles contain.
Directories created by the K2600 have up to 8-character names, with no extension. A directory
can have an extension if it is created on an external computer (more on this later).
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