Emax

Good News!!!!

This is going to be kinda funny and even dumb.  The problem was that 
when I disconnected the 50-pin connector to make sure the connection 
was solid I had slightly bent the last two pins.  These two pins were 
actually going into another part of the cable connector, which meant 
that they were not making contact.  The thing is that I couldn't see 
these two pins because the power connector was right over them so 
after removing the power connector to take a close look I spotted the 
problem. WEEEE!! 

Anyway, now I can boot from the floppy and I've formatted the zip 
disk in the drive(or atleast it made a noise when I told it to do 
so).  I also "coppied the software" from the floppy to the zip disk 
and set the SCSI id to 5.  Unfortunately I haven't been able to boot 
from the zip... new challenges to come.

Thanks.





--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "brainztain" <digitailslide@...> wrote:
>
> Okay, so I've made a few posts of my process of upgrading my emax 
hd 
> rack to support the external zip and now I know for a fact that 
it's 
> not working.
> 
> After hard work cutting through the case and buying the 50-25pin 
> adapter, zip drive, disks.. blah blah blah I'm left with a non-
working 
> EMAX!!! WHY!!!!? :(
> 
> The e-max actually works and boots when I don't use the 50-25pin 
> adapter (I don't have a hard drive either), but when I try to boot 
from 
> the floppy disk while the adapter is connected the floppy disk just 
> says "Loading Software", ticks three times and then goes blank!
> 
> Does anybody know what's going on?  I know the zip drive works, and 
the 
> zip disk is new... the adapter was new too... It's just driving me 
nuts 
> and I'm really bummed out that after so much hard work it's not 
working.
> 
> Please help!
> 
> Thanks
>