MACKIE HDR24/96 - Manual (Page 35)

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Formatting Drives
Formatting a drive erases the drive contents and prepares the file system for use with the HDR24/96.
All media must be formatted before it can be used with the HDR24/96. Normally you’ll format disk
drives with the HDR24/96, but you can format removable media on another system. Mackie Media
PROJECT disks use the FAT16 file system, and Mackie Media M
•90 drives use the FAT32 file
system.
The HDR24/96 will only allow you to format an External drive. This is for safety, since the
recorder’s operating system resides on the Internal drive, as well as any Project files you may have
created. Should you feel an urge to reformat the Internal drive, please contact Mackie Technical
Support first.
Mackie Media M •90 drives come pre-formatted and ready to use, as do Mackie Media PROJECT
disks (be sure to buy IBM formatted ORB disks). However, off-the-shelf UDMA IDE drives from
the computer store do not come preformatted. If you decide to buy your own drives and install them
into Mackie Media Trays, then you will need to format them, either on the HDR24/96 or off line.
You can format PROJECT disks with any PC that has Windows 95, 98, 98 SE, NT 4.0, Millennium,
or 2000 on it, or with any Mac that has File Exchange or PC Exchange installed (Mac OS 7 or later).
You can format UDMA IDE drives with any PC that has Windows 98 SE, Millennium, or 2000 on it,
or with any Mac that has OS X installed.
Mackie Media drives can also be read by any system that can Format them. So, for example, you can
insert a Mackie Media PROJECT disk into your Macintosh SCSI or IDE ORB drive and copy your
Projects’ Recorded (WAV) and Rendered (WAV of AIFF) files directly onto your Mac’s hard drive.
BEFORE YOU START: If you have a Project open on the external drive and you attempt to format
that drive, you’ll get a warning message that you can’t format the drive containing your currently
active Project. (You may have lost track of where you were working or you might even have the
wrong drive in the bay!) So, before you start formatting, open a Project on the internal drive even if
you have to create a new one. Remember that formatting the External drive will erase everything on
the drive!
To Format media from the Front Panel or Remote 48
Make sure the currently open Project is on the internal drive.
• Press the DISK UTIL button.
• Select Format
• Select OK to do it, or Cancel to quit before formatting
Formatting is very quick, less than a minute in most cases. When the format operation is
complete, if you’ve formatted a new hard drive or one that’s never been used for recording in
a Mackie recorder, you’ll be prompted to Verify it for recording and playback. Select
Cancel if this is going to be strictly a backup drive (an ORB cartridge, for instance), or
Continue to run the performance verification test (see Verify Drive Performance).
To format media from the GUI:
Make sure the currently open Project is on the internal drive.
• From the File menu select Format Drive.
• Click Ok to format, or click Cancel to quit before formatting.
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