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Re: [emax] Re: Emax I HD SE booting from an Internal Zip Drive..possible?

2013-10-27 by Windrum Scoggin

Right on thx Ted!
'Restore image from'
EMXP
Here we come!
If those floppies
Don't work I want my
20 bux back
Ha ha ((jus kiddin')

I Just won a
brand new spankin
Never used PCD 60b
off eNay for $149.95
Free shipping
Gonna buy Jammie's
Slim floppy and rail
Setup plus some sound
Banks from him
so workin
With this this is gonna
Be fun
Hope its well worth
My investment

Cheers

On Oct 25, 2013, at 23:09, Ted Summers <djtbs1@...> wrote:

yes.

and again- there are images I loaded into the box site (djtbs1 is my username) that are ready to load onto flash from EMXP that already have PLUS OS on them.


On Oct 25, 2013, at 7:36 PM, Windrum Scoggin wrote:

Crap

If it writes and saves its own floppies just fine then why mess with it. I just hope it reads the floppies you send me or I'm SOL.
Only way to get the plus OS into the system is to unplug the HD plug-in the 60 B set it's ID to zero and boot off that.
Skip the floppy
Since Emax boots off the HD or flash set to ID zero I will boot from the 60B once I get your Plus OS loaded onto An SD card via EMXP
That should work right?
Thanks Ted
Greg

On Friday, October 25, 2013, Ted Summers wrote:

I don't think you could find a tech who would know how to re-align it.

And minimum shop charges these days is usually around $75 for the first hour.

IN comparison- a replacement drive can be found for around $75….

If my disks that I sent you don't work in your Emax drive that would kind of confirm that- those disks are from my Emax- never touched a PC drive at all. Emax format, write bank and tested boot and load bank all in Emax.

You need the adapter as detailed n the website link I sent earlier to use a slim floppy and it has to be modified.
I don't have any now and haven't for well over a year.
Jammie said he still has one though- so if he is going to make you flash cards that would be time to get it…

-T

On Oct 25, 2013, at 5:37 PM, Windrum Scoggin wrote:

Ted my Issue is not with EMXP . I got it to do a disk image and lay some banks on a zip disk yesterday. (User error I t took me a while to figure out how to do it-RTFM)


I think my real issue is with the Emax floppy disk drive
When I format a floppy on the Emax disk drive the Emax will see it okay. When I take that same disk and put it in EMXP or EMX both say it has bad sectors and neither programs will read it.
If I format a disc using EMX then use Matt's OmniFlop it will read the disk back fine and verify it.
I've yet to try and see if an EMX formatted disk will read fine using EMXP but going to do that tonight. If EMX P sees the EMX formatted disk okay but the EMX disc will not load into the Emax then I venture to say the email has a bad drive and can only see its own formatted disks.

Should the floppy disk drive in my Emax
have bad Head alignment can it be fixed?

What slim floppy drive would you suggest I purchase/use as a replacement? I am currently the high bidder on the PCD60 B that you sent me a link to on eBay so that coupled with the slim floppy should adequately fill up the slot where the old this dry fit in the Emax.
Hopefully the slim floppy is a simple drop-in?
Greg

On Friday, October 25, 2013, Ted Summers wrote:

IDE interface doesn't exist in Emax. Only SCSI and FDD.


On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Windrum Scoggin <windrumscoggin@...> wrote:

Oh, was just asking if you got your Emax with Internal Zip to boot from it as I thought maybe somone had figured out a trick to get the SCSI Zip drive to be seen as SCSI ID 0 by the Emax (maybe by setting some internal jumper or something on the drive that I don't know about)
I am told the Emax (if equipped with SCSI) will only boot off floppy dd or internal/external SCSI Hard drive ONLY if that drive's SCSI ID is set to '0'. From what I have seen, all internal Iomega SCSI ZIP drives can either be set to ID 6 or 7 but not 0. Now, I have seen on Youtube where this guy put a ZIP drive in his Emax
but I don't know if it is a SCSI setup or an IDE. I wonder if an IDE ZIP could be placed in the Emax and the Emax be boot from it. or is this guy even booting from it?
Experts on this topic, anyone?

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Daniel Baum <daniel@...> wrote:

I've never tried that; it has a hard disk. I have booted a Mac Plus from one though, if that makes any difference :)


D.


On Oct 25, 2013, at 11:04 PM, Windrum Scoggin <windrumscoggin@...> wrote:


Does your emax boot from the scsi zip drive
?

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Daniel Baum <daniel@...> wrote:

FWIW, I have used EMXP with a 100MB USB zip drive, when I was transferring Emax II banks from a CDROM to zip disks.

I used the USB zip drive with my laptop, and then read them from a SCSI zip drive on my Emax II.

D.

PS. I am about to have some more EMXP adventures with my new Emulator II, but that is a different story altogether...



On Oct 24, 2013, at 6:43 PM, Lorne Hammond <lhammond@...> wrote:

doesn't it have to be a scsi zip drive? Lorne

From: emax@yahoogroups.com [mailto:emax@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of windrumscoggin@...
Sent: October-24-13 8:26 AM
To: emax@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [emax] EMXP Sucess Specs Anyone? What system you running with EMXP?

Well, tried Windows XP 64 bit with 64 bit omniflop drivers...NO GO

Windows XP 32 bit with 32 bit omniflop drivers..NO GO

Windows Vista 32 this morning, with 32 bit o

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