Emax

Hi -

Thanks for the quick reply - that's an excellent utility.

Unfortunately the Emax II seems to want to read its OS from the 
floppy unless you change the SCSI Boot ID to something else. The 
manual says:

"This function allows you to select which SCSI drive (0=floppy, 1-
7=HD) Emax II will scan on initial power up for its operating 
software. Note: Emax II will always boot from floppy if a formatted 
floppy disk resides in the drive on power up"

My external ZIP drive only allows the 5/6 ID setting. I also tried 
booting up from a prepared internal SCSI drive set to ID 0, and using 
the trick of putting a jumper on pins 25/26 of the floppy connector 
to avert the system check, but it hangs on "Pease Insert Disk". I 
don't know whether that's because the drive doesn't spin up in time, 
or whether the thing is canny enough to know it's been hoodwinked.

Bleugh - after pulling apart my PC, my Emax and my Kurzweil to get 
this far, I think I'm going to have to surrender to Route 66...;) But 
once I get it working, I'll definitely be making more use of the 
wondrous EMXP...

specify otherwise --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "esynthesist" 
<esynthesist@...> wrote:
>
> Yes there is.
> 
> You can create an EMAX-II ZIP disk image with EMXP v2.02.
> (using the "manage Emax HD/CD images"->"create new image" menu). 
After 
> the 96 MB image-file has been created by EMXP, you can add an Emax-
II 
> OS to it (again with EMXP v2.02). OS files can be downloaded in 
this 
> group or from the emulatorarchive website.
> 
> Then you have to copy the image to a ZIP disk (connected to your 
PC).
> Again use EMXP for this :-) (via "restore" function)
> 
> One important note though !
> The ZIP disk must have been formatted first in an "emax-compatible" 
way.
> You don't need an EMAX to do that, but unfortunately my experience 
> shows that simply formatting a ZIP disk on a Windows machine does 
not 
> guarantee an EMAX-compatible ZIP disk.
> I always format them first on an old Mac Classic. This format 
procedure 
> seems to be compatible with Emax...
> 
> ///E-Synthesist
> 
> 
> 
> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "b_j_glover" <b_j_glover@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi -
> > 
> > I've got an Emax II (2212) which I haven't been able to boot up - 
> I've 
> > tried creating boot floppies, but they've never worked, and I 
think 
> the 
> > drive might need replacing. But I've got a 100MB SCSI Zip drive, 
and 
> I 
> > was wondering if there might be any way to create a bootable 
image on 
> > that via a PC...?
> >
>