11 - Sd Card Management; Overview Of Partitions; Formatting Cards - Tascam Digital Portastudio DP-03SD Owner's Manual

Overview of partitions

As described in "Partitions and songs" on page 30, SD cards
formatted by this unit are divided into partitions. MTR partitions
are for recording data while the FAT partition can be accessed
with a personal computer.
The FAT partition is FAT32 format and can be accessed by a
computer connected to this unit by USB. This FAT partition
is used to save songs and export stereo master tracks to
computers, as well as to allow this unit to import audio files into
songs, for example. For this reason, two steps are necessary to
copy from a MTR partition and a computer. You can also format
an entire card or individual partition as well as change the
divisions between partitions (repartition) as necessary.
CAUTION
Formatting and repartition operations cannot be undone!
NOTE
• The FAT (File Allocation Table) format is a disk format that
can be read by a computer.
• SD and SDHC card that are at least 512MB in size can be
used.

Formatting cards

This operation formats the entire card.
CAUTION
This operation erases all the data on the card and cannot
be undone! Confirm that you will not lose important data
before formatting a card.
When the recorder is stopped, press MENU to open the
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MENU screen.
2 Turn the DATA wheel to select CARD, and press the F4 (¥)
button to open the CARD menu screen.
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Turn the DATA wheel to select FORMAT and press the F4
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(¥) button.
The FORMAT screen opens.
MTR partition size
FAT partition size
Total card size
The following table shows the FAT and MTR partition sizes
for different SD card capacities. The FAT partition size is set
automatically according to card capacity.
Card capacity and partition size
Card capacity
32 GB
16 GB
8 GB
4 GB
2 GB
1 GB
512 MB
A message warning that all songs will be erased appears.
Press the F3 (YES) button to format the card.
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For example, if you format a 16 GB card, 12 GB are left for
MTR partitions after 4 GB is used for the FAT partition. (Since
1GB is actually 1024 MB, the total size of the partitions does
not always match the card size.)
• When formatting finishes the CARD menu screen reopens.
• After formatting, one song is automatically created in each
MTR partition.
• To cancel formatting, press the F4 (NO) button.
FAT partition MTR partition
size size
4GB 28 GB
4GB 12 GB
2GB 6 GB
2 GB 2 GB
1 GB 1 GB
512 MB 512 MB
256 MB 256 MB
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