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APPENDIX 4

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FORMATTING AND ARRANGING THE FLASHROM

As with a hard disk, the FlashROM needs to be formatted. This will arrange the memory

on the board(s) to be ready to accept sound data and/or operating systems. Formatting

should be performed when you first install the board(s).

To format the FlashROM, go to SAVE and press FORM (F6). You will see this screen:

As with disk formatting, you may select the type of format you wish to perform. In the

example shown above, FLASH is selected. Press F7 - FORM - to format the board(s). As

with formatting disks, you will receive the usual prompts to guard against accidental

erasure of data. You should press YES or NO according to your preference.

WARNING

PRESSING YES TO PROCEED WITH THE FORMAT WILL ERASE ALL DATA ON THE

FLASHROM BOARD(S). THIS DATA CANNOT BE RETRIEVED.

It is also possible to arrange the memory on the FlashROM board(s).

If you have used the FlashROM a lot and have deleted data from it and/or re-written new

data to it, what happens is that the memory gets broken up and you have unusable gaps

throughout the FlashROM’s memory area. This is known as ‘fragmentation’. Data needs

to be saved in one block to the FlashROM (known as ‘contiguously) and what can happen

is that if there are lots of gaps in the memory area, even though these gaps may all add

up to a fair bit of free memory, because the gaps are scattered around the memory area,

data cannot be stored contiguously to it. To overcome this, you can use the ARRANGE

function. This process will move all data up the memory area, closing gaps and leaving

one contiguous block of memory where data can be written to.

Confused? Please see the following diagram!

1Meg gap

1Meg free

2Meg used

1Meg used

2Meg used

1Meg used

3Meg free

BEFORE

ARRANGE

AFTER

ARRANGE

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