Emax

On 5 Oct 2004 at 15:18, Micke Askernäs spoke unto me:

> One of these emaxes also came equipped with an internal hd, but as it
> is closing in on 20 years old, I'm thinking of putting in an old scsi
> zip 100 drive into it instead and all that..

Remember if you are not going to do the external Zip Mod you will need to make sure 
the new power supply can handle the Zip, the original power supply can't.

> BUT ... my problem is: how do i transfer the os from the harddrive (or
> from diskette) to the zipdrive that i was plannign on making internal?

When you run the format command from any bootable media (floppy or hard drive) it 
automatically copies the OS as part of the process.

> Also, if i've read it correctly on emulatorarchive, all i really need
> to do is take out the harddrive, and set my zipdrive as SCSI id 100
> and it should hopefully try to boot from the zipdrive instead..

If you have the Zip set to the same ID as the hard drive then yes, it will try to boot from 
the SCSI ID assigned to the hard drive first.
 
> BUT .. the emax doesnt support larger drives than 20 MB ... so ... i
> take it i need to format the zipdisk into a format the emax can
> understand..

The only way to format a srive for Emax use is with the Emax itself, it has it's own 
proprietary format scheme. It will ignore anything beyond the 20Mb it can format.

> of course, to make matters harder, the old emaxes i was given had been
> given a rather crude paint job, and this none of the old menu buttons
> are visible, so i really have no idea what button does what at this
> point .. ;)

Download the manual in pdf format from wither my site or the Emulator Archive. It's not 
as good as having the menu on the unit itself, but what can you do!
 
> I am refurbishing the emaxes for live use with my band .. i'll post
> images when the first one is ready ;)
>
> in the mean time, i'd appreciate a little help .. also .. where can i
> change what midi channel the emax is transmitting on?

I can't quite remember it's been a long time, but it should be somewhere in the Master | 
Special  menu. Try pressing Master then using the slider to see the name of all the 
menus, I think it might be Master | 0 (Special) | 2 Midi Master  .. but hat could be wrong 
too ..
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