Emax

>The disk drives from emulatorarchive.com are quite expensive.  You need a
>Shugart-compatible drive, which is different from a normal PC drive.
>There's details somewhere around for making up a cable to convert between
>the types (the pins are slightly different).  Try http://www.buchty.net for
>the info, IIRC it's in the Casio FZ-1 section.
>A drive from a Mirage or SQ80 or similar ought to work.  You could try an
>early Atari ST drive, it might work.  You might have more luck with an Amiga
>drive, I seem to recall that they were Shugart.  I've heard it mentioned
>that Emaxes used Apple drives - they don't.
>HTH
>  Gordon.




is this true, how do i identify which drive is "shugart" drive?

i just tested epson smd-300 1.44k drive taken fron ast 386SX pc ('90)
only changed the drive id from 1 to 0.
it booteds fine, loaded banks and played ok. i kept it on for about 1 hour.
didn't notice anything exceptional (i.e. smoke.)  I dont have
data/schematics for emax original drive  so i don't know if there are some
differencies in pin order .

also once i tried a drive taken from external amiga  fdd case(citizen
720kb),  changed id, but it didn't work, maybe some other jumpers were not
set correctly.

If anyone else have tested any othe drive, please come out and share your
experience!
I  think it's important to find out which drives are compatible because
those original drives are starting to fail, sooner than later!
also it would be nice to find a replacement powersupply too.





Jyrki