Emax

If you are technically inclined, you should be able to make most  
standard floppies work. I was able to. The drive just needs to be  
able to be made a "Drive 0" which most new floppies are "Drive 1". I  
had to move a surface mount resistor to change it. But each drive  
layout of the board is different, so I can't just say "move this  
resistor/ jumper from here to here other than what I have already  
told you.

I figured it out by:
1) Looking up the floppy spec online
2) Looking at the original drive circuitry in relation to the spec.
3) Comparing the old drive to the new by tracing the circuit that was  
indicated from 1 and 2.

Required Digital Multimeter to verify 100% what I was doing, as it  
would be bad to fry the floppy controller for emax- that can be hard  
to find.


Regards,
Ted

On Oct 15, 2007, at 5:54 AM, tnb09061974 wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a Emax I SE with a faulty disk drive. The lamp of the floppy
> drive shines but the drive doesn't work any more. In the display I can
> read the message:"Please insert disk!" even if I insert a disk.
> Can tell me somebody of yours, which floppy drives are really
> compatible to Emax I SE?
> Please don't refer me to the Route66 Studios. I think that the prices
> there are too overexpensive.
>
> Thanks for your advice!
>
> Greetz Dan
>
>
> 



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