Tascam HD-P2 Owner's Manual

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TASCAM HD-P2 Owner's Manual 7System OrganizationFile System FormatWhen a new CF card is first inserted into the HD-P2 ascreen pops up offering to format the media. There aretwo reasons for this.The first is to ensure that the optimal FAT (FileAllocation Table) is being used with the card. TheHD-P2 supports both FAT-16 and FAT-32 for-mats. FAT-16 is for devices with less than 2 GB orless of total storage, while FAT-32 is required forlarger media. For media that is smaller than 2 GB westrongly recommend the use of FAT-16. Windows XP,by default, will format these cards using FAT-32, butthis will result in a reduction of overall performance.When in doubt, format the card to be FAT-16 usingyour computer or the built in Format tools on theHD-P2.Secondly, the FAT file system works best with an 8.3naming convention. All system and audio files arenamed using eight characters with a three-characterextension. For example:TAKE0001.wavSETTINGS.xmlBy default the HD-P2 names new projects, files, andmarkers using PROJ, TAKE, and MARK name pre-fixes. You can change these four letter defaults in theSystem and Project Settings menus. Projects, files, andmarkers can be renamed at any point using the built-inrenaming screen.NOTEThe name must be eight characters or lessand not use any special (non-FAT supported)characters. Also the name must be unique:projects must be named uniquely on a storagecard; audio files must be unique within theirproject.Non-FAT supported characters include:# , % , & , ‘ , ( ) , * , + , Comma , “ ,/ , : , ; , < > , ?, = , \ , [ ] , ` , { } , ~