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Re: [emax] PCD 50b issues in Emax 1

2014-04-02 by djrgary@...

I have had identical problem with PCD-40. Wondered if it was due the drive being removable media vs. fixed

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From: Ted Summers ;
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Subject: Re: [emax] PCD 50b issues in Emax 1
Sent: Tue, Apr 1, 2014 3:42:46 PM

16MB is too small to fit all the banks (35 banks)
256MB should be fine assuming the card is not "High Speed".

You may wish to try another PC Card media adapter.
Not all of them work 100%.
My PC Card to CF adapter is a Sandisk (with the red and blue label).

YMMV.

-Ted


On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 3:53 AM, <essential11939@...> wrote:

I've just received an Emax I HD retro with SE update (SE HD Rev 1.1)
I have a PCD 50b SCSI card reader and also an HxC floppy emulator.
I can copy the software from the HD to an HxC image and boot from that, but I am unable format a CF card in the PCD 50b (ID 0, terminated)
It will format the drive and then saving banks, then it goes to saving the software, at which point it says Hard Disk Error.
I've tried a 256Mb and a 16Mb card.
Any clues?


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