Startup; Library; Disk Drive Information - Kurzweil K2000 - GUIDE SUPPLEMENT - VERSION 3 Musician’s Manual Supplement

Disk Mode Enhancements in Version 3
Disk Mode Page
Version 3, they are totally compatible with the new directory features. In fact we have tried to
make it very easy to re-organize any existing disks that you have.
Path
The Path field shows the current directory on the current disk if it is a K2000 format disk. This
field is displayed upon returning to the Disk mode page after you have pressed one of the disk
function soft buttons and viewed the file contents of a specific disk. The current directory is
always initialized to be the top-level or root directory when the K2000 is powered on, or when
the CurrentDisk parameter is changed. After this, the current directory is remembered by the
K2000 as the most recent directory accessed by the disk functions.
The root directory is displayed as
If you press the Load button and load in a file from a subdirectory called SOUNDS, the Path
field will appear as
The slash character is also used as a directory separator, as in the following path:
Path|=|\NEWTUNE\SAMPLES\DOGS\
This represents the subdirectory DOGS, that is located in the SAMPLES subdirectory of the
NEWTUNE directory in the root directory. If the path is to long to fit on the top line of the
screen, its display may be abbreviated. The maximum length of a path in the K2000 is 64
characters—including backslashes (\).

Startup

The Startup parameter determines what disk drive will be used for loading the power-up macro
file BOOT.MAC. If this is set to None, then the K2000 will power-up in a normal fashion. If this
is set to a SCSI device or Floppy, when the K2000 is next powered on it will look for the
BOOT.MAC file in the root directory of the specified disk, and load in each of the entries in the
macro specified within.
This feature provides a very flexible way to automatically configure your K2000's memory
contents whenever you turn the power on.

Library

This feature works in conjunction with the macro feature to provide a way to distribute macro
files that load data from removable media without having to know in advance the SCSI ID of the
removable drive. A macro file stores its references to drives by drive ID (SCSI ID or Floppy), or
by either a
would set the Library parameter to be the same as the SCSI ID of your CD-ROM drive, if you
were loading macro files from a floppy disk or another SCSI drive that referenced CD-ROM files
containing samples or keymaps.

Disk Drive Information

Below the media type and disk capacity is now displayed specific information about the current
disk's manufacturer, model number and internal mechanism. The K2000 requests this
information from a SCSI drive when the drive is selected by setting the Current Disk parameter.
This information may be needed when determining if a given drive is compatible for SCSI
operation with the K2000.
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Path|=|\SOUNDS\
or
Library Unspecified
.
Path|=|\
.
designation (see Macros on page 4-36.) Typically, you