Emax

Damn, I forgot you can only boot from scsi id 0... I guess I'm gonna 
have to get an internal zip drive...  I got everything else working 
now though. 


--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "brainztain" <digitailslide@...> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
>