Owner's manual

Rear Panel Features Page 21
Shortcut Audio Editor Owner’s Manual
Expansion Connector and External Disk Drive Support
The Expansion connector allows for an external SCSI drive. This device must be able to
be set to SCSI address 6. It can be a removable media drive such as an Iomega Zip
®
100 or 250
SCSI drive, Zip 100 Plus, or Jaz
®
2Gigabyte drive.
The drive cable must have a 25 pin male connector to plug into the Shortcut editor’s
EXPANSION port. This type of connector is known as a DB-25 and is commonly found on
Apple Macintosh
®
computers. This type of connector is supplied as standard equipment with
a SCSI Zip
®
or Zip Plus drive. The Jaz 2G comes with an adapter to go from its high-density
connector to the DB-25.
Enable the SCSI termination on the external drive, and set the SCSI ID to 6. When an
external drive is connected, Shortcut automatically turns off its internal terminator.
The Shortcut editor will always start up on the Internal Drive. To select the External
Drive press DIR, then MENU, then select item 5 SELECT EXTERNAL DRIVE. (Pressing NUMERIC
KEY 5 will directly select Menu item 5.) To return to the Internal Drive the process is the
same, and the menu item will read: SELECT INTERNAL DRIVE.
The External drive has ten directories just like the Internal drive. Recording, playback and
editing can be performed right on the External drive. However, for important recordings and
on-air playback, we recommend using the Internal drive. Also note that External drives cannot
be password protected.
When a new drive (or a new removable disk) is first used it must be formatted. When the
External drive is first selected (as described above) the Shortcut Editor will recognize that the
drive or disk is unformatted and offer an opportunity to format it, or abandon the operation
and return to the internal drive. There is also a FORMAT EXTERNAL DRIVE command in the
Directory Menu to allow reformat to be used to erase a drive. Note that disks that are write
protected in software, such as the Tools disk that comes with some versions of Zip

drive
cannot be formatted in the Shortcut.
When copies of files are made between directories on the same disk, the audio data is not
copied, only the edit lists are. However, when a file is copied from one disk to another, all
audio data is always copied for each file, even if two versions that are largely the same are
transferred to the same directory. This means that two or more files that share audio will take
more disk space when copied to another disk because the shared portions are recreated as
separate data. For more information on Copying files, see page 64
If the External drive is a removable media drive, the Internal drive must be selected before
a removable disk can be ejected.
Most removable media drives have an automatic spin down feature to save media and
drive life. If Playback or Recording is attempted when a drive is spun down, there will be a
delay while the disk spins up again. The EDIT OUT button will flash during this period. You
can force a drive to spin up to prepare for playback by pressing DIR, then FILES. You can also