Instruction Manual

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• File Organization and Navigation
DigiCart/E provides a straightforward identification and naming approach suitable for the most advanced
external controls. These range from QWERTY keyboards and 360 Systems’ RC-series remote controls, to
serially interfaced PCs and industry standard ES-Bus or Peripheral Bus automation and editing controllers.
Files may be accessed by name or by their file ID number. The key to the file ID system is an easily
understood five-character basic identifier. The first character represents the logical disk drive. There are
two choices in the original factory setup:
Drive Level ID:
Indicates DigiCart
drive number 0-6
1 . 8 027 L
Directory ID:
Indicates DigiCart Directory
number 0-9, or S for Stack
(Playlist) directory
File ID:
Index number within
each directory
Playlist modifier:
Indicates L for linear, or
R for Rotating Playlist
After a "." (decimal) the second character represents one of ten directories, ranging from 0 - 9. A unique
eleventh character, "S" is used to identify a Playlist Directory (earlier called a Stack Directory).
The next three digits identify individual cuts or Playlists: 000-999 so there can be 1000 cuts in each of the
10 regular directories. An extra character follows Playlist numbers: L for Linear Playlists, R for Rotating
Playlists. For example:
Cut 27 in Directory 8 on the internal hard disk would have the ID: 1.8027
Rotating Playlist 5 on the Zip drive would be identified as: 0.S005R
Every drive, directory, cut and Playlist can be given a 15-character alphanumeric name, so you do not have
to constantly crosscheck between a printed index and the screen display. DigiCart/E can sort contents
numerically by file ID, or alphabetically by name.
Drive Organizational Strategy
As a network organizational strategy, it is recommended that all DigiCart/E recorders in a network be
configured largely with the same drive organization. This will simplify network management, and sharing
of Playlists and Hot Key assignments.
The internal disk shipped with DigiCart/E has a data capacity of 20GB, or more. This is enough to store
about 20 hours of 24-bit, 48K stereo audio. Each DigiCart drive has 10 fixed directories for audio
recordings and one additional directory for Playlists. Each directory can hold up to 1000 files of any length.
Depending upon your recording and organizational requirements, you may choose to partition this internal
disk with 2 to 5 equally sized partitions.
DigiCart/E has a flexible drive arrangement that allows a mix of internal drive partitions and network
drives. There are seven (0 through 6) drive selection numbers available on a DigiCart. Drive 0 is always
the Zip drive. Drive 1 is always the first hard disk partition. Drive 6 is always available for a network drive
assignment. Drives 2 through 5 can be either internal disk partitions or mapped to network drives. As more