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DD8
plus Version 2.20 - September 1998
** FORMATTING THE TAPE WILL PERMANENTLY DESTROY ITS CONTENTS **
PLEASE BE CAREFUL BEFORE PROCEEDING
Because of the potential danger of accidentally formatting an existing tape, you must press YES
(F5) to proceed. During the format, you will see the message “FORMATTING TAPE. PLEASE
WAIT” pop up on the screen during the process. Once the process is complete, you will see the
message “FORMAT COMPLETE”. The tape is now ready for use.
NOTE 1: The format should not take long under normal circumstances (15 seconds or so) but
if the tape has been used several times before, you may find it takes longer as the DD8 may
need to check the tape to make sure it is suitable for use. Under extreme circumstances, it
may need to check the entire tape and so could take some time. If this is the case and the
formatting seems to be taking a long time, you can press ESCAPE to abort the formatting
process.
To avoid this, it is recommended you always use new, unused tapes. It is also not a good idea
to use tapes that may have been used to backup material from some other system (for ex-
ample, a PC or a Macintosh™ computer or (heaven forbid!) some other disk recorder.
NOTE 2: If you receive other messages such as DRIVE NOT READY or DRIVE BUSY, then
there is a problem with the cable and/or the drive. Please check both. Is the drive switched
on? Is there a tape in the drive? Are the cables connected securely? Is the SCSI buss termi-
nated correctly? If everything seems correct but the problem persists, try moving the tape
drive elsewhere in the buss (i.e. move from the end of the chain to the middle or vice versa).
If the problem still persists, contact your AKAI professional dealer.
If a message such as THE SELECTED SCSI ID IS A DISK DRIVE is shown, this indicates you
have selected the wrong SCSI ID in the SCSI TAPE field. Please take the appropriate steps.
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