Emax

Sorry...haven't read my emails in a while.
This is a response to an older question.

FYI the Emax II has drivers for CDROM drives in it's
BIOS (unfortunately).
As a result, there are only a few specific drives
(mostly very old Toshiba) that will work.
Apple CD Roms don't seem to work.
I believe John Silveria has a list, or I could dig up
the one he sent me a few years back.
It took me 2 years to find a CD drive that would work.
I was working in a used computer store, and went
through about a dozen old scsi CD drives that came
through the shop.
I found a Toshiba that was not on the "list", but had
a similar model number that worked, also one that is a
brand I never heard of.
As I recall they worked with the resister packs in
place.
Just a side note, I bought a couple used Compaq
computers a while back for $20 EA, so I could remove
the 540 MB SCSI HD's for use with my Emax II> The paln
is to load CD banks onto them (I bought the last
copies of the Emax II 1 meg and 4 Meg bank CD's from
the factory, they gave me a 2 for 1 deal as they were
the last ones!).
I have an Emax II, upgraded to 8 MB, with a 1 Gig
external HD currently. It's one of many peices of
electronic music gaditry I own, and one of dozens of
"projects" I have very little time to play with these
days  :(

Good luck to everyone looking for a CD drive!

Bob
 -- acid_line@... wrote:
> --- In emax@y..., "John Silveria" <emaxjs@h...>
> wrote:
> > Could termination be an issue, have you tried it
> in different parts of your SCSI chain? 
> > Have you tried it with an without termination? If
> memory serves me the Emax II requires 
> > that the final link in a chain have termination.
> Could the SCSI ID be conflicting? Do you 
> > have Emax II format media in the drive that is
> getting the "not an Emax II drive" error?
>  Well, actually I tried using the cd-rpm drive with
> a Greytsounds cd loaded and nothing happened, I've
> just tried with another 
> Apple drive , a cd300, and it said "Not Emax II
> drive". I also tried using scsi ID from 2 to 7 and I
> got the Emax stalled. 
> Perhaps the cd150 is not compatible with the Emax
> II, who knows anyway, I expect to find the right
> device, thanks anyway.
> 
> 
> 


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