Saving Waveforms and Setups
TDS 500D, TDS 600B, & TDS 700D User Manual
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To turn on or off the file overwrite lock, toggle the side menu Overwrite Lock
button.
When overwrite lock is on, the oscilloscope will not permit you to write over an
existing file of the same name. An important reason to allow overwriting is to let
you write files using a target file name that contains wild card characters (“?”).
This means the oscilloscope creates sequential files whose names are similar
except for the sequential numbers that go in the real name in the place of the
question marks.
To select the floppy disk or the hard disk (optional), turn the general purpose
knob until it scrolls the cursor over the line marked with both the name of the
drive to select (fd0:, hd0:, or Zip:) and the disk drive icon (pictured at left).
Then, press SELECT.
To format a 720 Kbyte or 1.44 Mbyte floppy disk or the optional hard disk, turn
the general purpose knob until it scrolls the cursor over the line marked with
both the name of the drive to format (fd0: or hd0:) and the disk drive icon
(pictured at left). Then, press the side menu Format button.
To format a Zip drive, attach it to a compatible PC and use Iomega tools.
You can use an Iomega Zip drive to save and recall waveforms and hardcopies.
When a Zip drive is attached to the Centronics port, the Centronics port is not
available to printers and is grayed out in menus. To attach a Zip drive to the
Centronics parallel port, do the following steps:
1. Power down the oscilloscope.
2. If a printer is attached to the parallel port, disconnect the printer.
3. Attach a parallel port compatible Zip drive to the Centronics port (for the
location of the port, see the figure on page 2–5).
4. Power up the Zip drive either immediately after or at the same time the
oscilloscope is powered up. Do not power up the Zip drive first.
To Set Overwrite Lock
To Select a Drive
To Format
Connecting Printers and
Zip Drives
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