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HARD DISK CONTROL
SCSI (Small Computer Serial Interface) has become very popular as a means of interfacing
devices and because a SCSI interface is fitted as standard on the S3200XL, you may use a
wide range of hard disks as a storage device for your sound library. Hard disks offer more in the
way of size and also speed. More recently, the removable cartridge types of storage devices
have become increasingly popular. The problem with fixed drives is that when they fill up you
either have to delete files (or back them up to floppy or DAT) or you need to buy another drive.
With the removable types, you simply insert another cartridge.
Your hard disk is controlled from the page of the SAVE mode. When (F5) is
pressed, the following screen display is seen:
The parameters on this page are used to set SCSI ID’s. The most important parameters you
need to know about are and .
SCSI allows up to 8 devices to be on the buss and these each have a unique number 0-7 (it’s
similar to the concept of MIDI channels). In order for one SCSI device to ‘talk’ to a hard drive,
their SCSI ID’s must match. The field sets the SCSI ID for the sampler’s
SCSI interface. The default setting in the field is 5. This parameter must be
set to match that of the drive. For example, if your external drive is 1, this parameter must be set
to 1. You may, if you wish, have several drives connected and each of these must have
different SCSI ID’s. Each one can be selected by changing the ID number in the
field.
The field allows you to switch between the different MO formats
of disk. There are two - 512Bytes per sector and 1kByte per sector. Both offer the same
storage, they just have different sector sizes. The S3200XL can use both and this is selected
in this field. The default is 512b.
The field sets the S3200XL’s SCSI ID (as distinct from the sampler’s SCSI
interface’s ID) and is used when communicating between samplers or computer editors over
SCSI.
NOTE: If your external drive’s ID is something other than 5 and uses a IkBytes/sector disk, you
may set the appropriate settings here and, by saving the operating system to floppy disk and
powering up with it in the drive, the S3200XL will default to the SCSI ID and sector size of your
drive.
If you have the optional SONY HS-D650 3.5 inch magneto optical drive fitted internally in the
S3200XL, the : field allows you to turn this off in software. Three options are
available. The first is which leaves the MO drive operating at all times. However, because
the drive can be noisy due to the fans required for cooling, when not in use, you may like to
turn it off. This can be done in two ways. Firsly, you may set this parameter to AUTO which will
turn the MO drive off as soon as you attempt to make a smple in the REC page of SAMPLE. In
this way, the noise of hte driver’s fan will not spill over into your smple if you are using a
microphone in the same room sa your S3200XL. As soon as the smple has been recorded, the
drive switches back on immediately. The other option is which, as the function implies,
turns the drive off completely. Please note that this does not apply to external MO drives that
may be connected.
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