Emax

Marcello,

Thanks for using the software. 
The ERROR 87 ("invalid parameter") typically occurs when you are 
using EMXP with standard floppy disk windows XP driver software.

Are you sure you installed the DRIVER first succesfully ?
You can check this by going to the Control Panel, click the System 
Icon, then choose the Hardware tab, click the Device Manager button 
and unfold the "Floppy Disk Drive" device. Rightclick on the Floppy 
Disk Drive you're using with EMXP and choose "Properties".

The provider mentioned in the upper half of the window should be
"Emax Community / DDK Sample based" (not Microsoft or something else).
If you click the first button (driver properties/information) the 
name of the driverfile should be "flpyemax.sys" (not flpydisk.sys).

If this is not OK, please install the driver first. Installation 
instructions can be found in the README file.

Are you also sure that you're using EMAX formatted disks ? Because if 
you use DOS formatted 720K disks you can also get this error.

Another possibility is that the BIOS of your PC does not support non-
standard floppy disk access. In that case EMXP will never work.

Hope this helps. If not... wel then this stuff only works on my PC :-)

Regards,

///E-Synthesist


--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "Marcelo Simoni" <marcelo@d...> wrote:
>
> Dear Esynthesist
> I installed your program on my Windows XP computer. Although I keep 
receiving the following message:
> ERROR 87
> 
> What did I do wrong?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Marcelo
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>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: esynthesist 
>   To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 8:02 PM
>   Subject: [emax] EMX for Windows XP...
> 
> 
>   Hi guys,
> 
>   You can find a new file "emxp_v0_90_pub" in the files section.
> 
>   I was tired of booting my PC in MS-DOS to use EMX.
>   So I created a new program EMXP (=EMX for XP) and an Emax Floppy 
Disk 
>   Driver. 
>   After installing the driver, you can use EMXP to read or create 
EMAX 
>   disks * in Windows XP *.
>   Formatting EMAX disks is not supported yet.
> 
>   Please read the README file before installing and using EMXP and 
the 
>   driver.
>   It works fine on my PC but I do not guarantee that it works on 
all XP 
>   machines. 
>   Using the software and the driver is completely at own risk ! 
>   I'm not responsible for any damage or crashes caused by the 
driver 
>   (and the program).
> 
>   Five important notes:
>   - The software will not work with USB floppy drives, only generic 
>   internal drives are supported.
>   - The software is not compatible with Windows 3.1, 95, 98, Me and 
>   probably 2000 and NT. Only XP is supported.
>   - After you've installed the Emax Floppy Driver, you won't be 
able to 
>   use 720K DSDD floppies anymore in Windows XP !!!!
>     But I don't think that's a real problem because:
>     * who uses these floppies anyway ? Only EMX(P) software 
does ... 
>   and that works fine
>     * the more common 1.44 MB floppies are still supported by the 
Emax 
>   Floppy Driver ... (I think)
>     * you can always replace the Emax Floppy Driver by the original 
>   Microsoft Driver ...
>   - The Emax Floppy Driver is based on the original Microsoft 
Driver 
>   but with some minor changes for EMXP. The driver is not fully 
tested, 
>   in fact I'm sure it contains bugs. But you won't see them as long 
as 
>   you only use EMXP to access old 720K floppies.
>   - The old EMX software by Mike Prudence will not work with the 
Emax 
>   Floppy Driver. You have to use the new EMXP software.
> 
>   I hope this thing is useful for some of you. 
>   But again: use is at own risk and please read the README file 
before 
>   installing and using the software.
> 
>   ///E-Synthesist
> 
> 
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