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TS-10 Musician’s Manual Section 13 — Storage

FORMAT — Formatting a Blank Disk

Before a disk can be used by the TS-10 to store data, it must be formatted. Formatting puts

information on the disk that the TS-10 needs to read and write files. In addition to formatting a

blank disk, the Format procedure can be used to reformat a disk that has been used with some

other device, such as a personal computer or another musical instrument. Note that any data (of

whatever type) on a disk will be lost when the disk is formatted by the TS-10.

To Format a blank disk:

• Insert a blank, Double-Sided Double-Density or High Density 3.5” micro-floppy disk into the

disk drive, with the label-side facing up, and the metal shutter facing away from you. Make

sure the plastic write-protect tab is in the closed position (no light showing through the

window).

• Press Storage.

• Press DISK. The Disk Storage menu appears (as shown earlier).

• Press FORMAT.

• The display shows:

• Use the Up/Down Arrow buttons or the Data Entry Slider (or Keyboard Naming if enabled)

to change the first character of the name and the left and right soft buttons on the screen to

move the cursor to the next character. The last three alpha-numeric characters can only be

numbers. Once you have the name that you want:

• SAVE saves the name shown into memory (battery backed up RAM). This name is also saved

with global parameters when you SAVE SYSTEM SET-UP (on the Disk Save page). This is

useful for changing the default disk name used for formatting.

• Pressing *EXIT* will return you to the Disk Storage page with no harm done.

• Press *FORMAT* to proceed. The display shows FORMAT DISK ALL DISK FILES WILL BE

ERASED. Press *YES* to proceed, or *NO * to abort the command.

• While the TS-10 is formatting the disk, the display reads FORMATTING DISK PLEASE

WAIT... The formatting process takes about 80 seconds.

• When the formatting is done, the display reads DISK COMMAND COMPLETED, and then

you are returned to the Storage page. The disk is ready to accept program, preset, sequencer,

system, Sys-Ex, or Sampled Sound data.

FORMAT DISK Error Messages:

There are a number of messages you might encounter while formatting a disk:

• DISK DRIVE NOT READY — No disk in the drive.

• DISK FORMAT FAILURE -- DISK IS UNUSABLE. This indicates a defective disk. If you get

this message we advise that you throw out the disk in question. Try again with another disk.

• DISK WRITE-PROTECTED — The plastic write-protect tab in the lower-left corner of the disk

must be closed (so you can’t see through the hole) before anything can be written to the disk.

Close the write-protect tab and try again.

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