Operation Manual

7. DISK COMMANDS
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7. DISK COMMANDS
Functions for selecting disks, renaming disks, mounting and
unmounting hard disks and CD-ROM drives, and specifying
the A5000/A4000’s own SCSI ID number.
Press the [DISK] button and then the [COMMAND/EXIT]
button to go to the command menu.
Seven pages are provided: SAVE, FORMAT, COPY_VOL
(Copy Volume), SYS_FILE (System File), BACKUP, CD-
DA, LOAD_OS.
Selecting a Command
[DISK] Button → [COMMAND/EXIT] Button →
COMMAND menu
Select the desired command from the COMMAND menu.
[Operation]
1. Turn Knob 1 to highlight the display line containing the desired
command.
2. Press the knob — Knob2 – Knob5 — corresponding to the desired
command.
Knob 1
[ Turn] Cursor
Positions the cursor.
Knob 2 — 5
[ Press] Command Select
Selects the corresponding command in the highlighted
display line, and display pages.
Command Execution
The command execution procedure is the same for all com-
mands. In all command pages Knob 1 is “EXEC” (EXE-
CUTE) and Knob 5 is “EXEC&CONT” (EXECUTE &
CONTINUE). The currently selected command is executed
when either Knob 1 (EXEC) or Knob 5 (EXEC&CONT) is
pressed.
When Knob 1 (EXEC) is used to execute a command, the dis-
play that was showing immediately before executing the com-
mand is automatically recalled after execution has finished.
When Knob 5 (EXEC&CONT) is used to execute a com-
mand, the same display is retained after command execution
so that you can immediately repeat execution of the same
command. Press the [COMMAND/EXIT] button to return to
the command menu without executing the command.
SAVE
[DISK] Button → [COMMAND/EXIT] Button →
Knob 1 to highlight display line 1 → Press Knob 2
Save specified data in memory to disk.
Refer to “Chapter 9: COMMAND” (page 208) for informa-
tion about the SAVE command.
FORMAT
[DISK] Button → [COMMAND/EXIT] Button →
Knob 1 to highlight display line 1 → Press Knob 3
This command formats floppy disks, hard disks, ZIP drives,
etc. When a hard disk or ZIP drive is formatted you can spec-
ify the creation of 2 to 8 partitions.
• The content of this page will vary depending on the selected For-
mat Type.
2DD or 2HD floopy disks are formatted as follows:
Use Knob 3 (Format Type) to select FD(Quick), FD(2HD), or
FD(2DD).
• When a floppy disk is formatted all data it contains is irreversably
erased. Use this function with caution!
• A floppy disk cannot be formatted if its write-protect tab is open
(page 16).
• The floppy disk format used by the A5000/A4000 is MS-DOS com-
patible.
Knob 1 Knob 2 Knob 3
Knob 4 Knob 5
Turn
action
Cursor
———
—
Press
action
—
Command
Select
Command
Select
Command
Select
Command
Select
Formatting Floppy Disks
Chapter 7
DISK Mode