Thank you very much and I will pursue the disc trouble shooting you suggest. It is interesting that the sound discs do allow the machine to boot, but just fail upon load.
I cannot get the Emax II to recognize the Zip as an Emax drive at this point. It does see and access the drive when looking but it returns an error message "this is not an Emax drive" so I can't format a new disc. I will try the drive on a PC and see what feedback I get.
All input is greatly appreciated. I am missing my trusty Emax II!
Jeff M.