Disk Mode; Basic Operations - Kurzweil K2500 - MUSICIANS GUIDE Musician’s Manual Supplement

Disk Mode

Disk mode has changed slightly to accommodate support for partitions. The changes affect
several operations to varying degrees. We've already discussed the changes to the
formatting/partitioning procedure (see page 1); this section describes the changes to other Disk-
mode operations.

Basic Operations

This is how the Disk mode page looks when you're viewing a hard disk. Note the partition ID
(0, which indicates the first partition), which is included in the path information. The
partition ID for unpartitioned disks is always 0. There's no real limit to the number of partitions
your disk can contain; the K2500 should be able to read all of them. Nevertheless, 20 or so
partitions is a reasonable maximum.
DiskMode||||||||||||||||||||Memory:478K|
Path|=|0\PROGS\FILTERS||||||||||||||||||
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CurrentDisk:SCSI|1||||||||Startup:Off|||
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Direct|Access,|10000MB||||Verify|:Off|||
MegaDisk|10||||||||||||||||J.02|||||||||
<more||Rename||Move|||Util||NewDir|more>|
The K2500 records path information up to the disk level. In other words, the K2500 tracks your
movement within directories and partitions (but not from disk to disk). As long as you're
addressing the same disk, the K2500 has all the information it needs to load or save files (or any
other Disk-mode command).
When you select a different disk, the first command you execute causes the K2500 to prompt
you to select a partition. Once you do so, you won't see the prompt again until the next time you
change disks and execute another command.
The following table summarizes the changes (if any) in the twelve disk operations:
Load
Save
Macro
Delete
Backup
Copy
Sleep
Format
Rename
Move
Util
NewDir
Support for selecting different partitions; see Navigation on page 10.
Support for selecting different partitions; see Navigation on page 10.
Macro IDs include partition IDs; supports multi-disk macro files. See page 11.
Support for selecting different partitions; see Navigation on page 10.
Support for backups across partitions, and between directories within partitions. See
page 10.
Support for copies across partitions, and between directories within partitions. See
page 10.
Unchanged (puts current disk to sleep, or ejects removable media).
Support for multiple partitions; see Partitioning Your Hard Disk on page 1.
Support for selecting different partitions; see Navigation on page 10.
Unchanged (you can't move files across partitions; see Backups and Copies)
Several changes; see Utilities on page 10
Support for selecting different partitions; see Navigation on page 10
System Software Versions 2.98 and 4.44 (Disk Partitioning)
Disk Mode
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