Utility; Floppy Disk Utility - GEM GPS3600 Owner's Manual

Utility

After pressing DISK, use the Page scroll button
to pass to the last two, or three, Disk pages:
Floppy Disk Utility, Hard Disk Utility and SCSI
Utility (only if the SCSI port is enabled - optional).
These pages provide useful functions for disk,
Hard Disk and SCSI formatting and servicing.
The Floppy Disk Utility page options include:
• Format Work Disk (1.62 MB);
• Format Ms-Dos Disk (1.44 MB);
• Format Ms-Dos/Atari (720 KB);
• Change Disk Name
The Hard Disk Utility options include:
• Hard Disk Check-Recovery;
• Hard Disk Sleep Time;
• Hard Disk Protection;
• Hard Disk Back-up;
• Hard Disk Restore
The SCSI Utility options (if enabled):
If the SCSI port of your instrument has been ena-
bled by the installation of the optional SCSI kit,
the SCSI options offered in this page will depend
on the current operating system running on your
PS/GPS. As more options become available,
Generalmusic will provide software updates to
include them. Some examples are:
• Fast ZIP100 Format - a high speed format-
ting process for 100 Mb ZIP disks;
• ZP100 Format - a slower but optimised for-
matting process for 100 Mb ZIP disks
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FLOPPY DISK UTILITY

FORMAT WORK DISK (1.62 MB)
This operation force-formats a 3.5" HD floppy disk
for PS/GPS use.
This extended format procedure prepares the disk
with a capacity of 1.62 megabytes (compared with
the standard 1.4 of MS-DOS disks). This format
cannot be read by computers.
1. Insert a new floppy disk into the drive.
You can also use a formatted disk, provided
that you are not interested in conserving its
contents.
2. Select «Format work disk (1.62 Mb)».
The following dialog window appears:
3. Press ENTER to start the formatting proce-
dure.
WARNING: All the Disk initializing procedures can-
cel the entire contents of a used disk - be absolutely
sure that the contents include files that you don't
mind losing.
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