Disk Mode
File List Dialog
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Macro
Controls macro recording. Allows modifying entries from the current macro list.
Delete
Delete files from the current disk if it is a K2500 disk. See "Deleting files", below.
Rename
Change the file name of a file on a K2500 disk. See "Renaming Files", below.
Move
Change the location of a file from within one directory to another (on the same
disk).
Util
Check the free space, find files, and view directory organization and sizes on the
current disk.
NewDir
Create a new directory on K2500 disks.
Backup
Hierarchical file backup between drives.
Copy
Single file 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 K2500 disk.
The Sleep Soft Button
Many SCSI devices will “sleep” when they’ve been idle for a few minutes. In other words, the
disk will stop spinning, in order to save power and reduce wear. The K2500 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 “wake” the device again. The K2500 will ask you to wait while
the device’s disk starts spinning. As soon as the disk is spinning at full speed, the K2500 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 file list dialog is displayed anytime you select a disk function to operate on one or more
files on a drive (such as Load or Rename.) Here is a typical file 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 K2500 selects the current directory to display, and displays its
files 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 K2500 has just been powered on.)
The display for all drives (including floppy) shows the 3-character extension of all files in the
directory (except directories themselves). Extensions are created when the file is saved by the
K2500. You cannot modify the extensions on the K2500. This is because the K2500 uses the
extensions to tell it what kind of data is stored within the file.
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