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Re: [emax] EMAX II booting from SCSI HD without floppy

2014-10-01 by Ted Summers

ID 0 is reserved for floppy on Emax 2. Set it to ID1 then save that into Emax EPROM, or set it to 5 and see if it picks it up.

But this is exactly the reason why I don't recommend the floppy jumper workaround, as it limits your troubleshooting options.

-T


On Oct 1, 2014, at 1:01 AM, Fred Mbogo drfredmbogo@... [emax] wrote:


- I don't have a working floppy drive
- I've jumper'd pin 26 on my floppy cable, so it passes the check
- SCSI HD is a 160mb Quantum Prodrive, formatted with EMXP with OS 2.14
- HD is plugged into internal 50 pin cable
- HD has all jumpers empty, so ID should be 0 (according to the mfg manual)
- termination resistor packs are present

At boot it check the [fake] floppy, then scans SCSI starting at ID 5. It then loops back to ID1 and scans up to 7, forever.

The HD has never been formatted by the EMAX II. It's an old Mac drive that I formatted as FAT in XP, then formatted in EMXP and installed the OS.

Am I missing anything?


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