Emax

Many thanks to Steve and John for the helpful
input........it's a great group. 
Steve.....I'm considering opening it up to see if it
might be a connection problem.
I will still welcome any more suggestions and will
post when I find my way out of this glitch.
Thanks again,
Dave Dehart


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As I recall, Emax works like a PC in that it will boot
from floppy if a
disk is inserted, if it doesn't find one it boots from
the hard drive. If
you were able to boot previously from the hard drive
and now you can't,
then I would look first for a problem with the hard
drive. It could
something as simple as the SCSI cable or molex power
cable unseating
itself slightly, which it could easily have done
during transit. You'll
only need a formatted floppy to boot from if the hard
drive has died or
become corrupt.

If you get the hard drive working again, you can
create an OS floppy
simply by formatting it in the Emax. You may need an
old style DD disk as
opposed to the modern HD format, mind. I think there
are tricks to make HD
disks work but I don't know how reliable that is.

Good luck.


> Ron,
> Thank you for the info.  I suspected that if I had a
> disk I could get past the boot-up problem.  The
> strange thing is that it used to blow past the
floppy
> check and go to the hard drive to boot-up.  The
> previous owner must have saved that choice into the
> memory because it always booted without any floppy.
> I'm wondering if the battery is getting weak and it
> forgot the command to boot from the internal hard
> disk.....I appreciate your offer to get a disk to
me,
> but I live in the United States in
> Wisconsin,,,,,,,,,,,I don't know yet what my options
> are to get a boot-up disk, but that's what's going
to
> bail me out.
> Thanks again,
> Dave
>
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> Hello
> It looks like you need a emax-2 operating system ,on
a
> floppydisk
> (or did you already boot from floppy?)
> my unit also displays some weird messages,when i
power
> on,:
> it says then,disk not formatted,please insert
> disk,disk not formatted.
> ...
> but when i insert a emax2 OS disk everything is oke
> (So i dont think your Emax is THAT faulthy)
> You will need a:Emax-2 2.14 OS on a DS/DD disk
> If you live in the netherlands ,i will send you a
> disk.
> (or..where do you live?)
> Ron
>



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