Disk Drive Tutorial; Selecting Storage Devices; To Save Le To A Oppy Disk - Agilent Technologies E5100A User Manual

Disk Drive Tutorial

Selecting Storage Devices

To save le to a oppy disk
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5-8 Analyzer Feature T utorial
The analyzer's 3.5 inch built-in disk drive, RAM disk and FLASH
disk can be used to save instrument states, measurement data, and
Instrument BASIC programs. The built-in disk drive supports the DOS
le format which is used for IBM-PC and compatible computers. The
RAM disk is 256kbyte volatile storage and the FLASH disk is 256kbyte
non-volatile storage. The commands of save/recall access only the
RAM disk directly. Pressing
contents in the RAM disk copy to the FLASH disk. At power on,
the all les in the FLASH disk copy to the RAM disk. This section
describes the basic procedure for using the analyzer's disk drive.
1. Press
then using
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Save/Recall
exible disk drive and the memory. When the exible disk drive is
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selected, [A:DISK] is displayed. When the RAM disk is selected,
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[B:MEMO] is displayed.
1. Press
, and select
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that key.
2. Insert a disk into the disk drive.
3. If the oppy disk is new, you must initialize the disk. Press
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FILE UTILITIES
initialize disk.
4. The instrument will save the le to the current working directory
of oppy disk. If you want to save the le in another directory,
move the working directory. Refer to \To change working
directory".
5. Press
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6. When both instrument state and measurement data are to be
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saved, press ALL . When only the instrument state is to be saved,
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press STATE ONLY . When only binary format measurement
data is to be saved, press
only ASCII format measurement data is to be saved, press
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DATA ONLY (ASCII) .
7. Enter the le name by selecting letters or input from keyboard.
8. After entering the le name, press
Initialization destroys all current data on a disk. You can NOT recover
the data once it has been destroyed by the initialization process.
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BACKUP MEMO DISK key makes the all
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STOR DEV [ ] to select the built-in
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STORE DEV [A:DISK] by pressing
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INITIALIZE A:DISK: YES to
INITIALIZE
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SAVE .
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DATA ONLY (BINARY) . When
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DONE to complete this task.