Emax

Conventional wisdom has it that zip drives just don't work with the Emax II.
I've heard you can do it, but I don't have one.  I do have a pair of 44M
Syquests, and they work just fine.
Check your cable (a good quality cable for DB25 to 50 pin SCSI is about
\ufffd30), not too long (2 feet or so - the SCSI drivers in the Emaxes are utter
crap).  Check that the drive is terminated.  There will either be a
terminator plugged into one socket on the Syquest, or it will have three
resistor packs mounted internally, near the IDC connector on the drive
itself (you'll need to have the case off the drive to check this).

If you've got an old Mac or something similar, try the drive on that.  Poke
at it with SCSITools or something, you can download them off the net.

My Emax II runs quite happily with the Syquest, and a 120M internal drive
out of a Mac IIfx.
I've had problems with active terminators.  This is probably due to the
"quality" of the Emax's SCSI chipset.

-----Original Message-----
From: anthony wilson <whoppachops@...>
To: emax@yahoogroups.com <emax@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 10:44 PM
Subject: [emax] SCSI


>Hi
>
>I have a syquest external hard drive and and Iomega 100 zip drive for the
>emax II, problem is that is doesnt recognise that either one is plugged
into
>the SCSI port,  the display just reads either "load bank from floppy " or "
>SCSI 1-7 not found "  any ideas on what may be wrong?
>
>Cheers
>
>Anth.
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