Floppy disk drive operations, Format diskettes, Floppy disk drive – Tektronix Grass Valley 3000 User Manual

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Floppy Disk Drive Operations

Floppy Disk Drive Operations

The switcher floppy disk subsystem is used to store and recall
effects files stored in E-MEM registers, and to store and recall
system configuration setups. You can also:

■

Format diskettes

■

Create directories and files

■

View the diskette by directory, file name, or file extension

■

Delete files and directories

Format Diskettes

1.

Press the main menu

DISK

button to bring up the main Disk

menu.

NOTE:

It will take a few seconds before the Disk menus display. The

disk system does a self-test during that period.

2.

Insert a diskette into the disk drive in the upper control panel
of the switcher. Make sure the write-protect on the diskette is
off.

3.

From the Disk menu, press

UTILS>

to invoke the Disk Utilities

Menu. (Do not press

CHILD DIRECTORY

at this time.)

4.

If the disk is already formatted, skip to “Saving Files.” If not,
proceed as follows:

a.

From the Utilities menu, press either

FORMAT 720K

or

FORMAT 1.44M

, as appropriate.

b. Press

DO FORMAT

.

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