Emax

If it is any help to the debate, I have been using a 250MB zip drive for
about six months and as yet no problems. My Emax is quite a late serial
number, I'm not sure if that makes any difference or not.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gordon Pearce [mailto:gordonjcp@...]
> Sent: 31 March 2001 15:51
> To: emax@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [emax] SCSI
>
>
> 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
>