Emax

I can't answer that.. Rob at Emulator Archive has the lowdown on the actual internal 
parts. 

On 5 Oct 2004 at 16:55, Micke Askernäs spoke unto me:

> Thanks for your answers, John...
> 
> However, one quick question:
> 
> How powerful is/was the original Emax power supplys?
> 
> since mine were fried, i managed to fit two 80W supplys i bought 12
> years ago and never used into the each of my emaxes, and it seems to
> have worked just fine since then, and since it has basically the same
> specifications (a few extra coords that i dont use, but othwerwise
> same Voltage and Ampere on the outputs)..
> 
> hopefully, this 80W should be more than sufficient to run a zipdrive
> on, escpeicllay when i remove both floppy and harddrive...
> 
> ;)
> 
> //Micke
> 
> On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:39:14 -0400, John Silveria wrote 
> > 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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