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An HD disk is detected as 1.44MB by the drive hardware due to the slot on the disk.

Emax can only use a 700KB disk size. - so without covering the slot, Emax sees it as invalid media.

With that said- the slim floppy is more likely to work with an HD disk where the hole is covered (making it seen as a 700k) then an HD disk would with a stock Emax drive.

But over time it can still be a problem using the wrong disks with the hole covered.

I've seen this in practice where I had used HD disks with the hole covered….after a couple of months started getting CRC errors.

There's still a magnetic field strength mismatch…..

The best answer is still to get actual DSDD disks, which can be purchased on the web- they are still made as whole industries (for example sewing/ embroidery machines) use disks for the programming….

-T

On Jan 3, 2015, at 10:14 AM, Robert Van Kuran guitar5l50@... [emax] wrote:

Hey Ted,

Emax 1 Question about slim floppy drive and FD media type.

Can you successfully use a 3.5" HD disk with the slim floppy drives?

I know the stock Emax 1 FDD prefers DSDD.

Thanks for your help,
-RVK

On Jan 3, 2015, at 9:33 AM, "Ted Summers djtbs1@... [emax]" <emax@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

You are using DSDD floppy disks and NOT 3.5 inch HD disks, correct?

Because this is a common error message when using the wrong disks…

-T

On Jan 2, 2015, at 10:48 PM, julioho_53077@... [emax] wrote:

Ok, so I'm making some progress. I was able to download the OS for Emax I and Emax II. I figured I needed to do a run test with the Emax I so I wrote the Emax I OS into a disk and then put an image of the Alan Wilder samples and when inserting the disk into the Emax I keyboard it didn't say Disk Error! rather it gave me an Data CRC Error message, what the hell is this and what does it mean?

Now, in regards to the Emax II config. I put the Emax II 2.14 OS on the disk and tried putting a EM1. file on the same disk hoping that it could read it... No luck there... My Emax II didn't read it and it went directly to the hard drive. Am I doing something wrong? I apologize for the inconvenience but I turn to you as I know you are a guru on Emax.

Thanks

---In emax@yahoogroups.com, wrote :

You have to write an OS and a bank to the disk.
EMXP doesn't include the OS in the download.

You have to download and put OS image in the OS or image folder inside EMXP.

EMX version file of Emax 2.14 OS is in the files section of the group.

login to yahoo group to get it.

-T

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 9:47 AM, julioho_53077@... [emax] <emax@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Hi folks,

Tried using the EMXP software and couldn't find the Emax II OS or any other OS. Where would I find it? I've used the EMXP to write some of the Alan Wilder samples on disks that I bought but when trying to copy or save a backup on other Emax I disks the sampler gave me a disk error again. I'm really struggling on understanding how the EMXP program works.

Any insight will be highly appreciated on both issues.

Emax

Re: [emax] Re: Converting Emax I disks to Emax II disks

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