Tascam D00871320A Owner's Manual

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Disk management40 TASCAM DP-01 Owner’s ManualAdvanced techniquesDisk managementFormatting and re-partitioning are“destructive” actions. You cannotundo them, and the changes arepermanent.The DP-01 allows you format and re-partition the internal hard diskto suit your needs.The DP01’s hard disk is divided into partitions. Songs can be created on apartition and moved to another one later for archive purposes, etc., or youcan use different partitions for different types of songs.The FAT format(File AllocationTable) is a disk format which can beread by all personal computers.In addition to the song partitions, there is also a FATformatted partition.This is the part of the hard disk that can be read by a personal computerwhen the DP01 is connected using USB. Whenever you want to archive orstore a song on a computer, export a mix to a computer, or import an audiofile for inclusion in a song, the data must be copied in two operations, copying first to the FAT partition and then from there to your computer.Selecting the active partitionChoose the active partition, from which you can load existing songsand on which you can create new songs, etc.1 Press MENU and select the DISK menu.2 Select the PARTITION action and press the key.You cannot selectthe FAT partitionhere.An arrow (←) shows the active partition. The sizes of the partitionsare shown (not the available space).3 Move the cursor ( ) to the partition to make it active and press ENTER.The DP-01 stores the current song, loads the current song on the newpartition and shows a series of messages about the progress of theoperation.Formatting a diskThis destroys alldata on the entiredisk. You cannot undo it. ONLYCARRY OUT THIS OPERATION IFYOU ARE SURE THIS IS WHATYOU REALLY WANT TO DO.As well as formatting the internal hard disk, you can set the size ofthe DP-01 native partitions.1 Press MENU and select the DISK menu.The disk sizeshown on the dis-play may vary from the examplegiven here.2 Select the FORMAT action and press the key.3 Use the jog wheel to select the size of the partitions (32, 16, 8 or 4gigabytes—1 gigabyte is 1024 megabytes).z All partitions will be the same size, except the last one, which will bethe size of the remaining space.