Disk Utils; Disk Info - Akai DD1500 User Manual

DISK UTILS

Pressing UTILITIES will give this screen:
The page shows information about the currently selected disk. You can see how much
time is free on disk (this is also shown on the VGA in the OVERVIEW box at the bottom
left). You can also see the size of the currently selected disk and how much is used
(expressed in Megabytes). None of these fields is editable.
You may select other disks in the DISK field at the top right of the screen.

DISK INFO

Pressing INFO will display something like this screen:
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This screen gives more information about the type and size of the disk, how much of the
disk is used and how much is free. These values are expressed in Megabytes.
This screen shows the type of disk currently in the selected drive. The LABEL field shows
a hexadecimal number that is a unique number given to the disk under scrutiny at the
time you format it. This number is used internally by the DD1500's disk management
system to make sure that are never any conflicts of disks when using multiple disks and it
allows any disk to be used in any drive at any time and you do not have to worry about
which drive you put a disk into. The number is generated randomly when you format the
disk. It is highly unlikely that two of your disks will share the same label but this field is
shown just in case you do experience some problem and you can compare labels to see if
there is a conflict. However, the chances of this happening are remote to say the least!
Part of the label is the name you gave the disk when you formatted. This is shown after
the hexadecimal number.
The only field accessible in this page is the DISK field in the top right hand corner. Here,
you may select to view other disks that may be connected to the system.
DD1000 COMPATIBILITY
The DD1000 soft key has certain functions related to the handling of disks made on an
Akai DD1000. We will come back to these later in a section devoted to these functions.
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