Barudan BENS, Operation Manual

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Floppy Disk Utilities
Floppy disks supplement machine memory with additional storage, provide permanent
pattern storage, and a method of transferring designs to other machines. A low density
disk holds approximately 210,000 stitches, in up to 36 patterns.
Initializing a Floppy Disk
New disks must be initialized (formatted) before they are used. The BENS creates disks
in FDR format on either a double sided, double density disk (2DD) or a double sided,
high density disk (2HD). Although the BENS reads disks in other industry formats, it
can only create a FDR format disk.
Initializing a New Disk
1.
Open the disk drive cover and insert the
floppy disk.
2. Press the Read softkey.
The icon at the top left of the screen
identifies the device. It should show the
Disk icon, for the built-in 3.5" disk drive.
If this is not the current icon, press A,
below the Device icon, until it displays.
Pressing A toggles through the options:
Disk, Tape, COM and Jog. It takes
longer than usual to access an
unformatted disk. The system is trying to
determine if the disk is a format it reads.
When the BENS determines it is not
formatted, it beeps and displays the
initialize screen.
3.
Press C, below the Yes icon, to initialize
the disk. To cancel, press D, below the
No icon. During the process, the BENS
displays the following status screen.
When complete, the Memory output
screen displays, to facilitate transferring
patterns in memory to the newly
formatted disk. See page 2-27 for
information on saving patterns from
memory to floppy disk.
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