Just replace the HD with another SCSI one. You must know someone with a few dead Mac's lying about... I put a Mac 40 meg SCSI in mine, then changed it for a 120 meg drive. Works just fine... Cheers, Gordon ----- Original Message ----- From: "David W Crosby" <spacesuitoption@...> To: <emax@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [emax] boy have i got problems! > nope. > will it fry the supply if i disconnect the hard drive and the floppy? > can i replace that with a better power supply? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: John Silveria > To: emax@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 11:06 AM > Subject: Re: [emax] boy have i got problems! > > > Your biggest issue is going to be that an Internal Zip will toast the power supply. The > power supply in the Emax and Emax II can not handle the drain of an internal zip. Does > your Emax happen to have the external SCSI adapter? > > > On 2 Nov 2001 at 15:41, David Crosby wrote: > > > THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE HELP! > > last night, my hard drive actually let me get into it. Half of the banks > > were toast but half were accessible. I copied those banks onto floppy then > > tried to reformat the HD. It wiped it clean but won't take the software. It > > keeps crashing when it gets to the loading software part.I've decided that > > the HD is history. But the system still works by floppy and I have many, > > many samples. So i'm thinkin about installing an internal zip drive in the > > system and removing that noisy hard drive. I saw a procedure for it on > > emulatorarchive but the wording of the article seems to imply that it's a > > only a theory. Has anyone actually installed a zip drive in the Emax HD? > > Will the OS HD1.1 software format a 100mb zip disk? Will the floppy drive > > work while I transfer all my files to zip disks? Any special tips on > > installing a zip from anyone that's actually done it? > > > > > > >From: "John Silveria" <emaxjs@...> > > >Reply-To: emax@yahoogroups.com > > >To: emax@yahoogroups.com > > >Subject: Re: [emax] boy have i got problems! > > >Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:40:54 -0800 > > > > > >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? > > > > > > > > John Silveria II > > > > AIM: EmaxJS > > > > The Silveria Family Website > > > > Emax and Emax II User's Group > > > > http://www.silveriafamily.com > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > > > ADVERTISEMENT > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Emax and Emax II User's Group > > > > > > > > http://www.silveriafamily.com > > > > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Emax and Emax II User's Group > > > > > > > > http://www.silveriafamily.com > > > > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! 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Re: [emax] boy have i got problems!
2001-11-02 by Gordon JC Pearce