Format; Save - Yamaha Portatone PSR-640 Owner's Manual

Disk Operations

Format

Setting up commercially available floppy disks for use with PSR-740/640 is called
formatting.
This function is useful for quickly deleting unnecessary files from an already formatted
disk. Be careful when using this operation, since it automatically deletes all data on
the disk.
1
Insert the floppy disk into the disk drive.
When a (new) blank disk or an incompatible disk is inserted an alert message
will be displayed on the screen. In this case, press the [EXIT] button to show
"OK to format the disk?" and then simply follow the procedure 5 below.
2
Press the [UTILITY] button.
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DISK IN USE
3
Select "Format."
Use the data dial, the [+/YES] button or the [-/NO] button.
4
Press the [NEXT] button to display the Format operation
screen.
5
Execute the Format operation.
Press the [+/YES] button to execute
the Format operation.
Press the [-/NO] button to abort the
Format operation.

Save

You can save PSR-740/640 User styles, User pad (banks 37-40) and Registration
Memory data (banks 01-32) to floppy disks.
1
Insert the floppy disk into the disk drive.
2
Press the [SAVE] button.
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• After formatting, the capacity
of a 2HD disk is 1 MB, and
that of a 2DD disk is 720 KB.
• When the floppy disk's write-
protect tab is set to ON (see
page 66) or the disk is a
purposely "copy-protected"
disk, an alert message
appears indicating that the
Format function is not
possible.
• If data is already saved on
the disk, be careful not to
format it. If you format the
disk, all the previously
recorded data will be
deleted.
• While formatting is in
progress, never eject the
disk or turn off the power
to the PSR-740/640.
• If a disk that cannot be
read by the PSR-740/640 is
inserted into the disk
The Format operation
drive, it will be treated the
is completed...
same as an unformatted
floppy disk. Take care not
to erase important data by
accidentally formatting a
disk.
• When the floppy disk's write-
protect tab is set to ON (see
page 66) or the disk is a
purposely "copy-protected"
disk, an alert message
appears indicating that the
Save function is not possible.
CAUTION