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Re: [emax] RE: Regarding Floppy Drives

2014-02-06 by Christopher Moffatt

Good for you Ted

:-)


From: Ted Summers ;
To: ;
Subject: Re: [emax] RE: Regarding Floppy Drives
Sent: Thu, Feb 6, 2014 5:40:31 PM

I have banned Windrum for his behavior.

What many of you don't know is he contacts myself and Jammie (and has been for many months) off board as well as on board.

He has been abrasive in several of those communications (at least to me), even when I am trying to be helpful.

And every time he brings his rants due to his lack of understanding of PCs and the Emax itself and brings up his vaunted HVAC credential (what that has to do with samplers, I don't know).

Jammie provides much more technical help than any other member save myself and Esynthesist.
It would be bad to lose him because someone else is problematic.

Regards,
Ted


On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Windrumscoggin <windrumscoggin@...> wrote:

So they are drop in replacements?
What is it about the EMU 720k
Rule I've ben reading? About
How modern
1.44 MB DD drives won't work?
If that be the case then why do HD
Disks used with the OmniFlop driver
Written on Teds machine and EMXP work? Hea only using a a standard 1.44 MB FDD in his PC too
So dar tge disks he's written onnhis machine load into Emax fine

I am assuming because the driver
And floppy code written by eSynthesist
Changes the area/sector in which the data is written to on the floppy disk and how the Emax FDD reads/looks for that data in a special way
If that be the case why not just mod a regular plentiful TEAC 25hf drive to work in the Emax then just use any old floppy dd in OmniFlop and write the OS that way?
Just an amateurs thoughts here

Thank You for that list!


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On Feb 6, 2014, at 3:00, <geektech207@...> wrote:

Correction:

Shugart SA300
Epson SPM-3924
Panasonic JU324
Panasonic JU364
Panasonic JU254

Those are single-sided drives that won't work. That's the type needed for Enqoniq Mirage, not emax. As far as I know the rest of the drives on the list should work. Don't own them all, nor have I personally tested them though.


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