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GETTING STARTED
If you press SHIFT+EXECUTE, you will receive this screen:
If the disk is write protected, you will receive the prompt:
After a few seconds, the prompt will disappear and you will be returned to the main FORMAT DISK
page. You should eject the disk and take the write protect off. However, there may be a reason the
disk is write protected so it may be wise to leave the format page and check the contents before
proceeding as there may be important data on it that needs to be kept.
The full format and certify procedure takes between 20 minutes and an hour, depending on the
size of the disk. During this time, the system writes a new, empty directory to the disk after
which, if FORMAT & CERTIFY is selected as the format operation, it goes through the disk
searching for bad blocks and marking them so that they won't be used.
We recommend that you do a full format to prevent the possibility of disk errors later on.
However, if you wish, you can either select FORMAT ONLY as the format operation of you can
just let the format run for 30 seconds or so (enough time to write the directory) and press EXIT
to abort. In most cases, FORMAT ONLY should be sufficient but please note that AKAI
professional cannot accept responsibility for disks that have not been fully formatted that show
errors later on. It is recommended that you do a full format for brand new disks. If there are no
bad blocks shown, there should be no need to do a full format again should you wish to re-
format the disk for re-use at a later date.
As a final reminder...
FORMATTING THE DISK WILL ERASE THE CONTENTS COMPLETELY AND YOU WILL
NOT BE ABLE TO RETRIEVE THEM.
We will come back to the other disk functions later as these are all to do with disk management
(rename, delete, copy disks, etc.) and assumes there is audio on the disk. If this is the first time
you have used the system, we need to get something onto disk before we can look at these
functions.
DD-PLUS DISK FORMAT
The DD-PLUS disk format was introduced to replace the previous NORMAL and EXTENDED
formats. Current software no longer directly supports writing to NORMAL or EXTENDED format
disks created on earlier versions of software. Although both these disk formats are still recognised
and fully supported for playback compatibility, any attempt to write to these disks will give an error
message saying "Disk Format Is Read-Only!". EXTENDED format disks can be easily updated to
DD-PLUS format and is described later.
These are the basic settings one needs to make for operating the RE32 system. We will look at
other DISK functions later on.
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NOTES ON FORMATTING DISKS
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