Mounting D24 Disks On A Personal Computer - Yamaha D24 Owner's Manual

Mounting D24 Disks on a Personal Computer

The D24 uses the DOS FAT16 filing system to manage files on disk. This means that an
MO disk formatted by the D24 can be mounted on the desktop of a PC running a Win-
dows operating system, or a Macintosh computer that can mount DOS formatted
disks. Obviously, the MO disk drive that you use with your computer must support the
disk type and capacity. You cannot, for example, mount a 640 MB Overwrite-type MO
disk in a normal 640 MB MO disk drive.
External hard disk drives can also be mounted by a personal computer, although this
only applies to disks that were initially formatted as DOS FAT16 volumes using a per-
sonal computer. See "Formatting External Disk Drives" on page 158 for more informa-
tion.
D24 sound files and some of the project settings files appear on the desktop just like any
other file. Since the D24 sound files use a proprietary Yamaha format, they cannot be
played using common audio playback software.
When a D24 disk is mounted by your computer, do not use any disk utilities on the disk,
such as defragmenting software. Doing so may damage the disk or stored data.
The following example shows how a D24 MO disk can be mounted by a personal com-
puter with a compatible MO disk drive.
The following example shows how a SCSI disk drive used for recording on the D24 can
be mounted by a personal computer with a SCSI interface.
formatted by the D24
SCSI bus termination
is applied on this drive

Mounting D24 Disks on a Personal Computer

3.5" MO disk drive
D24 MO disk
SCSI disk drive
SCSI cable
SCSI port
SCSI ID: 4
Personal computer
Personal computer
SCSI port
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