Emax

Wow, that's impressive rex.  Keep me posted as I would also be interested in
setting something like this up.

I assume you have more than likely checked out this site:

http://www.scsiforsamplers.com/index.html

Good luck!

-s*


On 9/12/07, pauzetanker <rexbautista@...> wrote:
>
>   get ready for a long post...
>
> i was hoping make this post one where i had success in installing the
> card reader and thanked all the past users for all the information
> i've learned about the emax and putting such a thing into my "new" toy...
>
> but so far i've been pretty dead in the water with this project. i'm
> hoping that posting up what i've done for people to see will
> eventually lead to some answers from folks in the group. my ultimate
> goal is to ditch the floppy and LOUD hd, to solely rely on the card
> reader so i can take this baby out to gigs, without fear of killing
> the moving parts.
>
> i have an emax hd running the 1.1 OS.
>
> first order of business was to get a scsi card reader, but i wasn't
> willing to pay $140 for it just yet. thanks to ebay, i managed to
> score an SCM PCD-15B off ebay for cheap, which i know folks have been
> using in MPCs and some other samplers, so i'm hoping there was no
> compatibility problems there. the pcd-15b is a two-slot reader.
>
> i also bought an old SCSI card for the PC, just to make sure that the
> jumper settings on the pcd-15b could get me to SCSI ID 0. the pcd-15b
> has only 3 sets of jumpers (as opposed to 4 on the pcd-47b). i found
> out through trial and error that no jumpers = SCSI ID 0 for slot A.
>
> i removed the HD, plugged in the pcd-15b, and booted from floppy.
> with a pcmcia adapter/SD card in the pcd-15b, the emax would load the
> software from floppy and then hang at the "Just a moment" screen.
> however, if i booted without the pcmcia card in the reader, i managed
> to have the OS load from floppy.
>
> ok, so with the OS loaded and emax on, i put in my pcmcia card and
> tell the emax to format hd. lo and behold, it works! i also have it
> copy the OS over, which it does (very fast i might add). so things
> are looking good.
>
> now comes the test: i power down the emax, take out the floppy, and
> try to boot from the pcmcia card. i get past diagnostics, but the
> emax hangs at "just a moment". no good. i try booting from floppy
> with the pcmcia card in the reader, and get the same result as before
> -- it hangs on "just a moment".
>
> i decide that i should eliminate the chance that maybe it's a
> limitation due to me running 1.1 OS. so next order of business:
> upgrade my emax with the SE upgrade, and move on to the Plus OS.
>
> i buy some 800kb diskettes, format them in my emax, and boot my pc
> into DOS 6.2. since i run my pc solely on SATA drives, DOS wasn't
> seeing the FAT partition i created. however, it did see my USB flash
> drive i had plugged in, so that's where i copied the necessary files to.
>
> i used emaxutil to make the upgrade diskette, and pop it into my emax.
> DISK ERROR. i try re-fromatting my diskette and re-making the SE
> upgrade diskette a few times before i finally gave up.
>
> ok so now i'm stuck. i'm open to any suggestions on the above, but
> here are a couple thoughts:
>
> -maybe the USB to floppy thing isn't a good idea to make the SE
> upgrade disk, so i'm going to find a spare IDE drive to format into
> FAT and copy my files to. hopefully this will result in a usable
> upgrade disk.
>
> - maybe ditch the pcd-15b? i guess i can save up $140 for a card
> reader... :(
>
> if you've made it this far, thanks for reading. hopefully soon i can
> share a success story.
>
> rex
>
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