Emax

Hi,
As already suggested try cleaning the heads first, this can keep an old
drive going for some time ! A major floppy drive failure will cause the Emax
to freeze during boot up.

A variety of older DS/DD drives which can be set to a disk ID of zero will
work on the Emax - this is the critical difference that all E-mu samplers
have. We have tried old Sony drives but found new drives are more reliable.
Floppy drives were made with jumpers for selecting ID, but with the
widespread adoption of the IBM floppy identification standard - jumperless
drives are now the norm. We sell brand new replacement TEAC drives which
come with the correct 41mm high bezel and are in black, thats why they cost
a little more than usual. They are an EXACT electrical and cosmetic
replacment that will last for 10 years.

You can get the floppy drive, which is a TEAC 235HF-A529, from a variety of
online stores but they usually only sell in bulk as this is an industrial
model that has lower production volumes. The bezels are somewhat harder to
locate, we sell these on their own for owners who have the TEAC drive
already. We have the jumper settings for anyone who is interested.

Regards

Rob

The Emulator Archive
www.emulatorarchive.com

  > > Anyway, just thought I'd throw that out there and see if someone
  > > recognizes the symptoms of a floppy drive gone bad.
  > >
  > Disk drive head out of alignment.
  > it might possibly be able to read/write its own disks, but would have no
  > hope on another drives disks.
  >
  > you can get a new drive from emulatorarchive.com
  >
  >
  >
  > julian



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