Tascam DP-01 Owner's Manual

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Disk management36 TASCAM DP-01 Owner’s ManualAdvanced techniquesDisk managementFormatting and re-partitioning are“destructive” actions. You can-not undo them, and the changesare permanent.The DP-01 allows you to manage the internal hard disk, formatting and re-parti-tioning the disk to suit your needs.The DP-01’s hard disk is divided into partitions. Songs can be created on apartition and moved to another one later for archive purposes, etc. or you canuse different partitions for different types of song.The FAT format(File Allocation Ta-ble) is a disk format which can beread by all personal computers.In addition to the song partitions, there is also a FAT-formatted partition.This is the part of the hard disk that can be read by a personal computer whenthe DP-01 is connected using USB. Whenever you want to archive or store asong on a computer, export a mix to a computer, or import an audio file forinclusion in a song, the data must be copied in two operations, passingthrough this FAT partition on the way.Selecting the active partitionChoose the active partition, from which you can load existing songs and onwhich you can create new songs, etc.1 Press MENU and select the DISK menu.2 Select the PARTITION action and press the y keyYou 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 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 wholedisk. You cannot undo it. ONLYCARRY OUT THIS OPERATION IFYOU ARE SURE THIS IS WHATYOU REALLY WANT TO DO.As well as formatting the disk, this allows you to set the size of the DP-01native 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 y key3 Use the wheel to select the size of the partitions (32, 16, 8 or 4 giga-bytes—1 gigabyte is 1024 megabytes).… All partitions will be the same size, except the last one, which will bethe size of the remaining space.4 Press ENTER.- - P A R T I T I O N - -/ P a r t 0 1 ← 1 6 G BP a r t 0 2 1 6 G BP a r t 0 3 1 G B- - F O R M A T - -D i s k S i z e 3 7 G BP a r t i S i z e / 3 2 G B[ E N T E R ] - > E x e