Emax

Well, atleast now I feel more like it may just be an OS/floppy 
problem and not a floppy drive or other more-serious thing.

Thanks everybody for the input!  I'll update this when/if I get this 
thing fixed.



--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "elmacaco" <elmacaco@...> wrote:
>
> For What It's worth I always used EMX with disks formatted in the 
Emax I itself.  I got the plus OS to work once and since then I 
haven't been able to write an OS from EMX.  Perhaps even those 
without an SE /HD should try writing the Plus OS?  then once it boots 
you can format floppies and possibly load other OS's?
> 
> I do have a bunch of Emax disks with various different OS's that 
all boot on my machine, so if anyone needs a particular OS I most 
likely have it, the deal is still the same though.  
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: esynthesist 
>   To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 2:56 PM
>   Subject: [emax] Re: Emax SE HD OS problem
> 
> 
>   There is definitely a problem with formatting disks for EMAX 
samplers 
>   on a PC (both EMX and EMXP). I've got 3 EMAX-II samplers and 1 
EMAX-
>   SE sampler. All EMAX-II samplers can read/write EMX formatted 
disks, 
>   but the EMAX-SE fails most of the time (=3 ticks). 
>   I overcame the problem by formatting a disk on an EMAX-II and 
writing 
>   the EMAXSE OS to that disk using EMXP. This works fine. But of 
course 
>   you need an EMAX-II to do that :-)
>   What I didn't try yet is formatting a disk from the already 
booted 
>   EMAX-SE and try to reboot from that disk. I'll check this.
> 
>   When I have time I'll try to further investigate what causes the 
>   incompatibility with EMAX-I sampler floppy drives. I tried some 
>   things before (when writing the first version of EMXP) but I 
didn't 
>   own an EMAX-SE that time so it was not easy to do some tests.
> 
>   I think you also mentioned somewhere else that the LED of the 
>   floppydrive is always on. I don't think that's a problem: the LED 
on 
>   mine is also always on (except when power is off :-)
> 
>   I also hoped to be able to solve this kind of problems for EMAX 
>   samplers having an external SCSI interface. I was going to put a 
>   format function for zip disks in EMXP, so that floppies would not 
be 
>   required anymore. But I didn't manage to build that feature - 
still 
>   trying though... 
> 
>   Good luck
> 
>   ///E-Synthesist 
>   --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "Marco Barcena" <digitailslide@> 
>   wrote:
>   >
>   > I've actually tried making the disks on other older 
computers... I 
>   guess 
>   > they weren't old enough.
>   > 
>   > The only thing left to do is order an emax hd-made OS from 
somebody 
>   and see 
>   > if that works.
>   > 
>   > Just out of curiosity: how many people have managed to make OS 
>   disks on 
>   > modern/fast computers under DOS 6.22 or EMXP?
>   > 
>   > 
>   > 
>   > 
>   > >From: "ted Summers" <djtbs1@>
>   > >Reply-To: emax@yahoogroups.com
>   > >To: emax@yahoogroups.com
>   > >Subject: Re: [emax] Re: Emax SE HD OS problem
>   > >Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:32:01 -0700
>   > >
>   > >I overcame my problems.
>   > >
>   > >Key info here:
>   > >if you are going to use external zip drive, you want the Emax 
PLUS 
>   OS
>   > >1.0 software. This allows external scsi to work.
>   > >Go to an OLD PC (like a 200MHZ or something) to make the 
floppy.
>   > >
>   > >That is what worked for me.
>   > >
>   > >If the floppy starts and does the 3 clicks, the floppy 
controller 
>   is
>   > >fine. The floppy controller chip is a WD1772, it is available 
on 
>   the
>   > >web, but I really don't think that is your problem.
>   > >
>   > >Failing that, you will have to have someone send you a floppy 
for 
>   the
>   > >$5.....
>   >
> 
> 
> 
> 
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