Disk Mode
Macros
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IDs to unspecified you won’t have to edit your macro files if you happen to change your disk’s
SCSI ID.
The Modify Macro page is where you can set unspecified Disk IDs (in Disk mode, press the
Macro soft button, then the Modify soft button). See Editing Macros on page 13-53 for more
information.
The Library Disk
If a macro entry is set to the library Disk ID, it means that the file to be loaded should be found
on the disk at the SCSI ID set by the Library parameter on the Disk-mode page. This designation
is similar in purpose to the unspecified Disk ID, because it is a way to avoid needing to hard-
wire the SCSI ID in advance. The library disk ID is intended to be used in macro files that reside
on removable media such as a SmartMedia card, whose macro entries are supposed to load
particular files on a specific sample CD.
The main purpose of this feature is so that macro files can be distributed on SmartMedia cards
containing programs that link up with sample files from CD-ROMs. You don’t want to have to
copy a CD-ROM file to one of your hard disks in order to make new programs that use that
CD-ROM file’s sample and keymap data. If you set up your CD-ROM drive as the library disk,
then create a macro file with entries that specify Library (L) for the Disk ID, the K2661 will be
able to load files directly from the CD-ROM, then load the programs from the SmartMedia, link
the programs with the sample and keymaps using the Relink-by-Name feature.
Here’s an example. In the following diagram, the Library parameter has been set to SCSI 3.
DiskMode||||Samples:10022K||Memory:|42K|
Path|=|\||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(Macro|on)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CurrentDisk:SMedia||||||||Startup:Off|||
||||||||||||||||||||||||||Library:SCSI|3
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
<more|||Load|||Save||Macro||Delete|more>
We’ll assume that SCSI 3 is your CD-ROM drive, and that you have a SmartMedia card that
contains a macro file with the following entries:
L:\PIANO4MB.K26||||||||||||||||200:F:Obj
F:\PNOPROGS.K26||||||||||||||||200:F:|||
When you load this macro file, the K2661 first looks for the file \PIANO4MB.K26 on your
CD-ROM drive, because your CD-ROM’s SCSI ID is 3 and you’ve set the Library parameter on
the Disk-mode page to 3. As long as you have the right disk in the CD-ROM drive, the K2661
loads the file, and then loads \PNOPROGS.K26 from the SmartMedia card.
If the K2661 executes the above macro, but the Library parameter has not been set (is set to Off)
an error message
Library|has|not|been|set
will be displayed when the macro process attempts to load \PIANO4MB.K26.
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