Hard Disk question

[Guardian]

ok, so, i'm looking to buy a hard disk for my triton with scsi.
i saw a 40gb hard, but it says this:

THE FOLLOWING KORG MODELS: Korg D8, Triton and Trinity may access only a portion (4GB) of the total drive capacity, or may need for the drive to be partitioned in 4GB increments. Check with Korg for details

What does that mean...how can a drive be partitoned?

[djpacman]

you should be able to take the drive to a local computer place and they would be more than happy to partition it for you at a price of course :)

its not something easy to explain if your not computer savey

[jeebustrain]

you found a 40GB scsi drive? As far as I know, they've never made those - only 4GB, 18GB, 36GB, 72GB, 146GB, etc... It has to do with the amount of platters in the drive. The way scsi hard drives are built, they only use certain bit densities on each one, which basically gives you the standard increments like what I mentioned. Oh - you mentioned that it has that notice on the drive itself? It must be a Korg thing.


I would imagine that the synth should have the ability to format/partition the drive. I've never seen one that couldn't. Basically it'll either ask what size you want to partition it to (you choose 4GB and it leaves the rest unformatted), or it'll just do 4GB automatically and just ignore the rest.


I guess the question is though, do you actually need more than 4GB of disk space on a synth like the Triton? It doesn't support audio recording in the sequencer to my knowledge, and that would be where you would use the most disk space. Any samples you load would be limited in size by the amount of RAM you have in the board. At least that's how it is with my Motif.

[djpacman]

My Kurzweil Rack will let me format drives but not partition them however that is a kurzweil so i'm not sure what a korg will do but i'd recommend partitioning it in a computer.