Handling Floppy Disks; General Disk-Handling Tips; Disk Protection; Back-Up Copies - Generalmusic WK1000 Owner's Manual

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If this is the ﬁ rst time you use a Floppy Disk and do not feel comfortable about handling such delicate mag-

netic aids, read this section very carefully.

Floppy Disks are inserted in the disk drive with the lablel side up, and the metallic shutter ﬁ rst in. Push the disk

smoothly and ﬁ rmly until it clicks into place. Hold the disk straight and avoid forcing it in while inserting.

Before ejecting a Floppy Disk, make sure that the operation led in the drive is OFF , and that wk1000 display shows

no disk operation being in progress. To extract the Disk, press the eject b button utton and remove the disk.

Floppy disks feature a protection tab that safeguard valuable data and prevent accidental cancellation. To remove

the protection and be able to write on the disk, slide the plastic tab upwards, closing the hole. To protect the Floppy

Disk so that it is not possible to erase or overwrite the contents, slide the plastic tab downwards, opening the hole.

You can use a pen or a pointed object to slide the tab.

Floppy Disks should be handled with great care, to prevent damage or loss of data.

Never open the metal protection shutter or touch the soft surface of the Floppy Disk.

Never leave a Floppy Disk inside wk1000 disk drive when you carry the keyboard around. Vibrations may

cause the drive head to scratch the disk and make it useless.

Never place Floppy Disks in proximity of TV sets, computer monitors, ampliﬁ er, loudspeakers, power

transformers or other device which is a potential source of magnetic ﬁ eld. The disk contents could be

seriously damaged or lost.

Never leave the disks in extremely warm or cold places. Do not expose them to direct sunlight. Protect

them from dust or dirt.

Do not place objects on top of a Floppy Disk.

Always return a Floppy Disk in a protective case after use.

It is advisable to keep a back-up copy of the more valuable Floppy Disks. The back-up copies should be stored

in safe places, as they are of extreme importance in case the data contained either in the instrument or in other

Floppy Disks get lost or damaged. To transfer data from a Floppy Disk to another it is necessary to go through

the instrument RAM memory. The contents of the source Floppy Disk (the one containing the data you want to

back-up) should be ﬁ rst loaded to wk1000 RAM memory, then saved to the destination Floppy Disk (the one you

will keep as a back-up copy)

After the instrument has been used for a long period of time, the disk drive head may become dirty, and cause

frequent disk load and disk save errors. To proceed to head cleaning, make sure you will use a good-quality

ﬂ uidtype head cleaning kit for 3.5" double-sided disk drive. Do not use a cleaning kit intended for old single-

sided disk drives.

1. Moisten the cleaning disk with the ﬂ uid product.

2. Insert the cleaning disk into the drive.

3. Execute a loading procedure. An error message will appear. It must

appear, as this is perfectly normal.

4. After about 10 seconds, extract the disk.

WARNING!: Wait at least 5 minutes before using the drive again.

PRECAUTIONS TO OBSERVE WHEN USING wk1000 DISKS WITH A COMPUTER

As occurs with MS-DOS operating system, wk1000 uses up to 8-character ﬁ lenames, and a 3-char-

acter extension. Macintosh, OS/2 and Windows operating systems may use longer names. When a

ﬁ le is named, or renamed on these computers, the following rules should be followed:

1. Never change the ﬁ le extension, since it identiﬁ es the type of ﬁ le and the relative structure.

2. Never use names longer than 8 characters. Furthermore, owing to some limitations of MS-DOS and Atari

systems, it is extremely important to observe the following precautions:

1. Do not insert spaces within a ﬁ le name (e.g.: "MY FILE"). MS-DOS does not recognize ﬁ le names containing

spaces. To keep a ﬁ le name divided into two distincted parts, you can separate the two parts with an "under-

score" symbol (e.g.: "MY_FILE").

3. Do not assign the same name to two different ﬁ les, even though one is written all in Capitals and the other

with small letters (e.g. "MYFILE" and "myﬁ le"). MS-DOS and Atari do not distinguish between capital and

small (or uppercase and lowercase) letters.

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GENERAL DISK-HANDLING TIPS

INSERTING A FLOPPY DISK INTO THE DRIVE

EJECTING A FLOPPY DISK

DISK PROTECTION