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Re: [Simmons Drums] Re: SDX Harddisk operation

2005-08-24 by Gordon JC Pearce

flybot2000 wrote:
> Ah, yes, THAT was the trick! 
> 
> The trouble with the SDX documentation was this: to save something,
> you use the FORMAT command, readily understood at Simmons to mean
> SAVING.
> 
> In America, the last thing you want to do is FORMAT a drive, because
> that wipes out everything. I actually had a phone discussion with a
> British engineer about this years ago.

Same in the UK. Very odd choice of terminology, that.

> So, with the SDX, don't fear the FORMAT command.
> 
> Jym

Does anyone have disk images for the SDX?

Gordon.

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