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Put in the floppy with HD 1.1 and then power up the unit. It should boot up just fine and 
when you do a Software check it should you are running OS 1.1 HD. Do not take that 
disk out of the drive. At this point you should be able to copy the OS onto the hard drive. 
If you can not then there is a good chance your hard drive is faulty.

If you are booting up without a disk inside the unit and it is saying you need to insert a 
floppy this is a sign that the HD is bad or not compatible, no matter what the scan tells 
you (and exactly what scan are you using). It is possible that the boot sectors of the HD 
are bad and the scan you are using isn't recognizing that.

Remember the Emax isn't booted until it loads the OS from either a Floppy or the Hard 
Disk. The OS is not stored inside the unit anywhere, it is stored on every piece of media 
that it formats. If you are powering up the unit and it says you need to insert a floppy 
disk then your system is not booting off of the hard drive, it is booting off of the floppy 
and whatever OS is on the floppy is what you have just booted with. It isn't "fooled into 
thinking HD 1.1 is loaded" it is loaded with HD 1.1.

If you boot with a floppy that has HD 1.1 on it, then take that floppy out and insert a 
different floppy that has a different OS on it when you go to do certain functions, like 
Copy Software, you are going to get a "different software rev" error because everytime 
you access an function the Emax has to go back out to the floppy and read that part of 
the OS. The entire OS is not sitting resident in memory anywhere.

On 31 Oct 2001 at 9:17, David W Crosby wrote:

> It didn't work. If I turn on the emax without a floppy inserted, then I insert a disk when 
asked for one and press load, It fools itself into thinking that HD 1.1 OS is loaded. I can 
then see the contents of the hard drive but it won't load any of it. I then tried to "copy 
software" or use any other function and it reads "different software rev". It'll run scan 
disk in this mode but it says the hard disk is ok. I tried loading the HD 1.1 OS from 
emulatorarchive but it won't read the floppy disk and seizes up. The emax will read 
floppies if I boot from a floppy with OS 3.2 and it'll occasionally let me tweak the 
paramaters but I can't save them. Sometimes it won't let me get into any other screens. 
what's your prognosis Doctor?
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: John Silveria 
>   To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 5:33 PM
>   Subject: Re: [emax] boy have i got problems!
> 
> 
>   A reformat isn't necessary, the Emax contains a"copy software" function. It is 
designed 
>   to copy newer OSs onto media (hard drives, floppies) without erasing the bank data. 
>   Use this function, it's in Master somewhere, to copy the Emax HD 1.1 OS onto the 
hard 
>   drive and onto any floppies you have that don't have the HD OS on it. Then you 
should 
>   be able to boot to the hard drive and access all the floppies too.
> 
>   I do wonder, have you made sure that the banks are still on the hard drive? If you ran 
>   the "hidden" hard drive diagnostics on the hard drive then the hard drive should have 
>   been wiped clean.
> 
>   On 30 Oct 2001 at 22:55, spacesuitoption@... wrote:
> 
>   > Someone gave me this awesome Emax HD sampler with 3 books full of 
>   > diskettes. but the hard drive wouldn't work It reads "Hard disk 
>   > error" or "Different Software Rev" messages to me. I discovered last 
>   > night that when I boot the sampler from a floppy, it loads as OS 
>   > version 3.2. if i monkey with one particular disk though, it'll load 
>   > as OS version 1.1HD and I can see the hard drive contents, run 
>   > diagnostics and can play around with all the other buttons. So i've 
>   > been on emulatorarchive trying to figure out what to do. I ran a hard 
>   > drive test and it says it's all right. I ran all the other tests and 
>   > they say it's all right. So I'm trying to decide if I should reformat 
>   > the hard drive. (There's tons of sounds on it that I can't 
>   > save.)...and if I do reformat the hard drive, with OS version 1.1HD, 
>   > will all the disks with OS version 3.2 work. At this point I can 
>   > access most of the diskette sounds and use the system for play back 
>   > only. I do want to use the other functions of the sampler (to make 
>   > those beautiful gritty 12bit samples) but don't want to accidentally 
>   > disable the thing completely. 
>   > ....any suggestions?
> 
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