Get a PCD-60B or a PCD-50b and slim floppy.
So you can use CF card or SD using a PC Card adapter.
That's my opinion.
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-Ted
On Feb 3, 2014, at 4:35 PM, <picabostreets@...> wrote:
Hi all,
I bought an Emax hd rack back in October, only to discover that it would not turn on. I finally had the PSU repaired recently, and it booted. Diagnostics did not indicate anything wrong on start-up, but hard drive issues became apparent... the HD light was activated but it wasn't initializing/spinning. I got it spinning by disconnecting it from the PSU and carefully swivelling it in hand, exerting a light stopping force with my other hand in an attempt to lightly jolt it into action (as suggested by a computer tech friend). It finally came to life, but then gave me the message "please insert floppy"... I went and formatted a 720k DSDD disk with the OS 1.1 for the HD version, and it still came up as disk error on the emax when I tried booting from it.
I went to try and load the floppy, but the hard drive wouldn't boot again, I performed the same maneuver as before, and when I reconnecting the PSU and turned it on, it suddenly booted fully from the HD without the floppy! I went and attempted recording with it, and the VU showed up and I went ahead with starting to sample, but then it failed at the end. It then prompted "please insert disk" again, and it won't get back to where it was.
The floppy drive spins if the floppy disk is detected at start up, but it says "disk error"... when I know that it is properly formatted with the 1.1 pre-SE HD OS using EMXP. I'm going to assume the hard drive likely needs to be replaced... Any other ideas/tips would be greatly appreciated. I've been trying to fix this for a few months now and I could really use some help.
Thanks
Ian