Emax

Two possible causes:

1/ Important calibration differences. This could either be caused by 
the drive in the Emax or by the drive in the PC. In your case most 
probably the one in your PC.

2/ You should use the OmniFlop driver. The Emxp Emax driver is too 
simple to be 100% reliable really... it's just a kind of emergency 
driver if for some reason you really don't want to use OmniFlop.
The Emxp Emax driver uses exactly the same disk parameters as the old 
EMX does, but the OmniFlop driver uses other parameters which are more 
correct. In fact, there's even a small incompatibility between the 
FORMAT parameters used by EMXP (with both drivers) and the READ/WRITE 
parameters used specifically in the Emxp driver. So relying on that 
driver can cause problems as soon as there are small calibration 
problems with the drive.
I know, because I have had problems myself :-)

Maybe I will change the Emxp driver in the next version of EMXP, but 
most probably I will simply not include it anymore, and remove any 
reference to it from the manual.

Everyone should use OmniFlop !
Perhaps in the future I will also include support for even another 
(free) driver available out there. That driver might be helpful for 
those people who keep having problems with formatting disks in EMXP, 
because I think it allows a high degree of parametrisation. We'll see.
It's definitely not my first priority.

Anyway: my advice is to try the OmniFlop driver first. If that doesn't 
work, you should have a look to your PC floppy drive, since up to now 
no one seems to have had R/W problems with the OmniFlop driver.

By the way: can EMXP READ those "good" disks ?

///E-Synthesist

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "dawid_marciniak" <dawid.marciniak@...> 
wrote:
>
> Hey GUYS
> 
> 
> I have noticed that When i load up Other floppies from All sorts of
> other sources my EMAX I reads them fine. I tried my old emax which i
> created years ago, Original Emax Sample disks, all work fine, Only
> when i try to write it from EMXP it gives me that error/./.
> 
> Could it be the floppydrive in my PC??? Its brand new Sony i picked up
> of amazon. Maybe try the Omni Driver? Maybe different floppy?
>