Emax

You gotta look and look hard for PCD's.....everyonce in a while, they come up for sale on eBay..getting rather hard to find IMHO....

You can look for an internal SCSI zip drive on Ebay and format to it using EMXP and another ZIP drive connected to your XP PC. So far I have written to ZIP drives on my XP using EMXP then loaded the disk via exteral SCSI Zip on my Emax just fine...BUT....

the option of using an external SCSI Zip drive means you will have to update to the Plus OS and the catch-22 ; to this is if you don't have a working floppy you can't update to the Plus OS on your Emax. Thefore, you will have to have someone make you a plus OS disk or use EMXP and make one yoruself, providing your floppy works on your Emax. Mine didn't so that put me into a dilemma but I was lucky enought to find a PCD and that saved me from having to find a new FDD or retrofit a slim floppy then load it into your Emax to update it. Once the Emax is updated the Plus OS then the Emax can 'see' external SCSI drives and you can load up off your external SCSI ZIP.

If ;your EMAX doesn't have an external SCSI connector, you can install one yourself if you have the time and wherewithall to do it and your internal Emax Main Board is a PC 333 board . Its REAL easy to install an external DB-25 SCSI conector on a PC 333 board....if not and you have Rev 2 boards its more difficult for sure (cuts and jumps you have to have some skillz with a soldering iron and a good eye) and its simply not possible with a Rev 1 board.

Hope this info helps. You can find internal SCSI ZIPS all over on eBay