Designating A Disk As A Removable-Media Disk (Windows 95 And 98Only); Configuring Device Drivers; A Bit Of Background - Kurzweil K2500 - MUSICIANS GUIDE Musician’s Manual Supplement

System Software Versions 2.98 and 4.44 (Disk Partitioning)
Working With Partitions
You might be able to unmount and remount the hard disk from the desktop, or using a software
utility—or you might have to restart the computer. If you're using Windows 95 or 98, you can
probably designate the hard disk as a removable-media disk (as described below), which is
convenient because Windows machines always read the FATs of removable-media disks before
writing to them.

Designating a Disk as a Removable-Media Disk (Windows 95 and 98only)

1. On your PC, run the Device Manager.
2. Expand the Disk Drives category.
3. Double click icon for the K2500's internal hard disk to bring up the Properties dialog.
4. Select the Settings tab.
5. Check the Removable checkbox.
Unfortunately, Microsoft removed this feature in Windows 2000—that is, it doesn't
automatically read the FATs of removable-media disks before writing to them. Consequently,
you have two choices regarding writing to your hard disk from the K2500. If you're content to
continue using Windows 95 or 98, we recommend that you designate the hard disk as a
removable-media drive, and unmount/mount the disk every time you write to it from the
K2500. If you want to use Windows 2000, you'll have to use the following procedure every time
you write to your hard disk:
1. Open the Device Manager.
2. Disable the drive that corresponds to your hard disk.
3. Enable the drive again, which causes the computer to read the FAT.
Configuring Device Drivers
PCs running Windows 95 or Windows 98 require a SCSI driver for every device in a SCSI chain.
There is no SCSI driver for the K2500, because it's not required for normal SCSI operations.
Consequently, the first time you boot up your PC after connecting it to the K2500 via SCSI, you'll
need to do some configuring to enable the PC to recognize the K2500. This configuration isn't
required, but it enables the PC and the K2500 to interact more smoothly.
Note : When this supplement was published, we hadn't tested the disk-partitioning feature with
Windows 2000. If you're running Windows 2000, you may need to configure a device driver for the
K2500 before your PC can recognize the K2500.

A Bit of Background

When you start up your PC, Windows scans the PC's SCSI port(s) for connected devices. For
each SCSI device it finds, Windows checks a set of entries in the Device Manager, to verify that
the appropriate SCSI drivers are installed. Windows 95 and 98 require that the Device Manager
contains an entry for each SCSI Logical Unit of each SCSI device. The K2500 has eight possible
SCSI IDs (0–7), so your Device Manager should contain eight entries corresponding to the
K2500. Each of these entries must specify a valid SCSI driver—otherwise Windows will report
one or more unknown devices as it boots up.
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