TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 13 — Storage
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From here you select which of the 6 disk functions you want:
• FORMAT — This formats a blank disk for use with the TS-12.
• COPY — This allows you to make a backup copy of an entire TS-12 disk.
• RENAME — allows you to change the disk name of a TS-12 disk.
• SAVE — save to disk Program, Preset, Sequencer, Sys-Ex Data, System Set-up, or Sampled
Sound files.
• LOAD — load from disk Program, Preset, Sequencer, System Set-up, or Sampled Sound files;
also load System Exclusive data for transmission to a remote MIDI device.
• DELETE — allows you to delete (or remove) any file from the disk.
FORMAT — Formatting a Blank Disk
Before a disk can be used by the TS-12 to store data, it must be formatted. Formatting puts
information on the disk that the TS-12 needs to read and write files. In addition to formatting a
blank disk, the Format procedure can be used to reformat a disk that has been used with some
other device, such as a personal computer or another musical instrument. Note that any data (of
whatever type) on a disk will be lost when the disk is formatted by the TS-12.
To Format a blank disk:
• Insert a blank, Double-Sided Double-Density or High Density 3.5” micro-floppy disk into the
disk drive, with the label-side facing up, and the metal shutter facing away from you. Make
sure the plastic write-protect tab is in the closed position (no light showing through the
window).
• Press Storage.
• Press DISK. The Disk Storage menu appears (as shown earlier).
• Press FORMAT.
• The display shows:
• Use the Up/Down Arrow buttons or the Data Entry Slider (or Keyboard Naming if enabled)
to change the first character of the name and the left and right soft buttons on the screen to
move the cursor to the next character. The last three alpha-numeric characters can only be
numbers. Once you have the name that you want:
• SAVE saves the name shown into memory (battery backed up RAM). This name is also saved
with global parameters when you SAVE SYSTEM SET-UP (on the Disk Save page). This is
useful for changing the default disk name used for formatting.
• Pressing *EXIT* will return you to the Disk Storage page with no harm done.
• Press *FORMAT* to proceed. The display shows FORMAT DISK ALL DISK FILES WILL BE
ERASED. Press *YES* to proceed, or *NO * to abort the command.
• While the TS-12 is formatting the disk, the display reads FORMATTING DISK PLEASE
WAIT... The formatting process takes about 80 seconds.
• When the formatting is done, the display reads DISK COMMAND COMPLETED, and then
you are returned to the Storage page. The disk is ready to accept program, preset, sequencer,
system, Sys-Ex, or Sampled Sound data.
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