i had several old emax drives i have been testing them over the last few weeks and can confirm that all have misaligment issues
i tested each one with disk written from a new slim floppy in one emax machine then loaded it into a test machine with each floppy drive and all failed to load the new disk
so i did more experiments by formatting the drives in the emu with the old drives and they formated the disk and would load from that drive but when i tried loading the disk into one of the other old drives and the new slim floppy i got errors
as i promised these drives for free to members i dont think its fair on you to send them as you creating a disk on a pc might not work and would be a waste of postal money on your part and wastage of both our times youy can get them realigned by a floppy repairers but its cheaper to buy a nos slim floppy for £5-10 and a slim floppy adapter and do the mods yourself
of get a hxc as they work if you have no scsi
if you have scsi i do recommend a cf scsi card drive either a pcd-47 pcd-50 pcd-60 or a acard 7720uw and a hpt swap drive as it loads fast and 35 banks at hand
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Re: [emax] old emax drives
2014-02-08 by Wind O'Neal
My old drive usually worked (only every once in a while would it say DISC ERROR or something like that). The reason I bought a new floppy drive (for $10) was because I was told on this list serve that my HD would cycle off at the startup because it needed to use the FLOPPY to read the OS. Or something like that. I never understood the startup order or anything.
So I am back at not being able to either startup (it checks SCSI 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and repeats but never finds FLOPPY, I think), nor access my 80MB Apple HD. When seeking help before, I was advised my OS is corrupted and needs new EPROM or something.
Any suggestions? Sorry I'm not very technically minded!
Sony MPF920-E 1.44MB Internal 3.5-Inch Floppy Drive
On Feb 8, 2014, at 4:46 PM, <jammie.emma@....uk> wrote: