Initializing The Internal Hard Disk - Yamaha AW2400 Owner's Manual

Initializing the internal hard disk

The UTILITY screen Format page lets you initialize the internal hard disk. Prior to exporting and
importing WAV files to or from a Macintosh computer (Mac OS X 10.3) it may be necessary to ini-
tialize the hard disk in order to change the hard disk cluster size.
NOTE
• Executing the Format operation will erase all data from the internal hard disk, and the data cannot be recov-
ered. We recommend that you backup all data on the internal hard disk to a computer before executing the
Format operation.
• You cannot abort the Format operation once it has been started.
• Never turn off or disconnect the power during formatting, since this may damage the hard disk and cause
malfunctions.
To call this page press the Work Navigate section [UTIL-
ITY] key as many times as necessary, or press the [F3] key
after pressing the [UTILITY] key.
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Initializing the internal hard disk
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B
1 CLUSTER field
Set the disk cluster size to either 32K or 64K.
If you will be using Mac OS X 10.3 for WAV file transfer
operations, set the cluster size to 32K. Select the 64K
cluster size for maximum speed if you will be using Win-
dows, or Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. When the AW2400 is
shipped from the factory, the cluster size is set to 64K.
B EXECUTE button
Execute the disk initialization. A popup window will show
the progress of the initialization operation.
The popup window will close when initialization has been
completed.