Emax

Thank you! Now I don't feel so bad about spilling my bodily fluids on the sacred machine. -ANGELzero
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From: "elmacaco" <elmacaco@...>
> Not true at all.
> 
> the HD I use in My SE HD Rack was opened many times and manually spun numerous 
> times and then put back together and it still works fine.
> 
> The trick with the HD, especially if it hasn't been used in a long time (most 
> Emaxes you buy will fall into this category) is once you get it spinning, Format 
> that fucker, and do it a few times, like say, 4.  You can do the data check and 
> the other Emax things you can do to the hard drive at this point if you want.
> 
> That will wake up your drive and make it really perform.  Then with the spinning 
> up issue, when I don;t power my emax up for a while, the HD won;t spin up, 
> now I use the rack, so this may not be possible on the keyboard version, but 
> when this happens, I turn on the emax, and punch the panel with the instructions 
> on it, this shakes the drive a bit so it can spin up, once it starts spinning 
> sometimes I get a bit of gibberish in the display, and I turn it off then on 
> again and it spins up now that the motor spun up just before.
> 
> This probably sounds worse than it is, I actually used to manually spin the 
> drive internally until someone on this list told me they just punch it (speak 
> up, I owe you a thanks ;)  and it beats having to open the emax and the drive.
> 
> I have a spare drive that I could replace the one I have with, but for now this 
> works fine,   when I'm on point I power up my emax every couple of days to avoid 
> the drive spin problem, but the punching is really a great trick.
> 
> as for exposing the plates, I've even touched them, still no data loss.
> 
> And that's how you navigate the Emax HD.
> 
> Long live old samplers!!
> 
> el
> 
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: gray 
>   To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 7:47 PM
>   Subject: Re: [emax] Re;Emax SE HD issues
> 
> 
>   You actually open the drive itself and exposed the plates.....if you did 
>   that I would say its toast.....
>   gray
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: angelo_negrette 
>   To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 7:39 PM
>   Subject: [emax] Re;Emax SE HD issues
> 
>   Can someone offer me some direction as far as navigating the hard 
>   drive on an Emax SE HD? I purchased one off of E-Bay some time ago and 
>   it worked fine for a while. I was able to access the sounds off the 
>   factory loaded hard drive with no problem. Then the hard drive stopped 
>   working, so I opened the unit up and re-seated the cables and it 
>   functioned again. After it stopped spinning a second time, I opened up 
>   the hard drive case and spun it manually. I put it back together and 
>   it powered up, spun and the display stuck on 'loading software' after 
>   initially saying 'diagnostics'. Thinking that it was the hard drive, I 
>   bought a re-furbished one off E-Bay, but I am having the same problem. 
>   I don't see anywhere in the Emax manual or SE manual where it tells 
>   you how to access sounds or save sounds to the hard drive. Any help in 
>   these matters would be greatly appreciated. Sorry for the long winded 
>   inquiry. Thanks in advance, -Angelo
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