Disk Mode
File List Dialog
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Delete
- Delete Þles from the current disk if it is a K2vx disk. See "Deleting Þles", below.
Rename-
Change the Þle name of a Þle on a K2vx disk. See "Renaming Files", below.
Move
- Change the location of a Þle from within one directory to another (on the same disk).
Util -
Check the free space, Þnd Þles, and view directory organization and sizes on the
current disk.
NewDir
- Create a new directory on K2vx disks.
Backup
- Hierarchical Þle backup between drives.
Copy
- Single Þle copy between drives.
Sleep
- Send SCSI sleep command to the current disk. See "The Sleep Soft Button", below.
Format
- Format the current disk as a K2vx disk.
The Sleep Soft Button
Many SCSI devices will ÒsleepÓ when theyÕve been idle for a few minutes. In other words, the
disk will stop spinning, in order to save power and reduce wear. The K2vx lets you tell your
SCSI devices to sleep. Just press the Sleep soft button, and if your devices have this feature, they
will sleep. This is particularly useful in a quiet studio situation.
Any Disk mode operation will ÒwakeÓ the device again. The K2vx will ask you to wait while
the deviceÕs disk starts spinning. As soon as the disk is spinning at full speed, the K2vx will
execute the operation you selected. Some SCSI devices automatically sleep when they power
up. (A device of this type usually provides a way to override this feature; check its manual).
Any Disk mode operation will wake a disk in this case, as well.
File List Dialog
The Þle list dialog is displayed anytime you select a disk function to operate on one or more
Þles on a drive (such as Load or Rename.) Here is a typical Þle list dialog, for the Load function:
Dir:\||||||||||||Sel:0/3|||||Index:|||1|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
||||File|to|load:BASSOON||.KRZ|||3456K||
|||||||||||||||||MAY25||||||||(dir)|||||
|||||||||||||||||PERC|||||.KRZ||||101K||
|Total:3557K||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Select||Root||Parent||Open|||OK|||Cancel
When you enter this dialog, the K2vx selects the current directory to display, and displays its
Þles in an alphabetized scrolling list. If the current directory cannot be located (for instance, if a
removable media disk has been changed), the default is to display the disk's root directory.
The root directory will also be selected if the disk drive was just chosen by the CurrentDisk
parameter on the Disk Mode page (remember that the current directory is always set to the top
level when the CurrentDisk parameter is changed, or if the K2vx has just been powered on.)
The display for all drives (including ßoppy) shows the 3-character extension of all Þles in the
directory (except directories themselves). Extensions are created when the Þle is saved by the
K2vx. You cannot modify the extensions on the K2vx. This is because the K2vx uses the
extensions to tell it what kind of data is stored within the Þle.
Directories created by the K2vx have up to 8-character names, with no extension. A directory
can have an extension if it is created on an external computer (more on this later on).
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