Emax

Problem Solved!

For anybody trying to run without a floppy disk drive (and booting 
from internal zip or hard drive), I've found a solution that works!!!

I suspected that using a jumper somewhere on the 34-pin-out for the 
floppy would "trick" the E-max into thinking there was a floppy drive 
(otherwise it would hang on diagnostics) but I couldn't find anything 
here or online that pointed out which one of these pins it was or if 
it was even true.

So, I dug out all my old hard drives and cd-roms to remove their 
jumpers so I could have enough to place them on all 34 pins (who has 
that many pins laying around!!).  Anyway, to find out whether it 
worked or not, I put all jumpers on the board's floppy pin-out... 
and... IT WORKED!!

I didn't want to leave all those jumpers on there so I removed one at 
a time, rebooting each time to see if removing that jumper would 
cause it not to work.  The result was that only one jumper is needed 
to "trick" emax.  This jumper must be placed on pin number 26 (and 
its "paired" pin).

So there you go! To get rid of floppy drive, just place a jumper on 
pin 26 and it's done. I hope this will help others who are also 
looking to operate without a floppy.





--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "brainztain" <digitailslide@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> I want to completely remove the floppy drive from my Emax HD 
because I 
> don't need it and will be using an internal zip drive, but it 
doesn't 
> seem to get passed the "diagnostics" screen when I do that.  I've 
read 
> most of the posts that have anything to do with this matter but I 
> haven't found anything helpful.
> 
> Is there a way to make the emax "detect" a floppy drive even if 
it's 
> not there? (maybe there's a "loop" after connecting the cable that 
> senses there's a drive connected?)
> 
> Any help is welcome.
> 
> Thanks.
>