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Hi there, welcome in the wonderful EMAX world !

So you have an EMAX 2 SE. Mmmm, either you have an EMAX SE (EMAX 1) 
or you have the EMAX-II (which always includes SE, so it's not 
specified in the type name). 
Since the menus seems to work on your EMAX with OS 2.14, you probably 
have an EMAX-II.
I assume you don't have a harddisk ? This means the EMAX needs to 
access the floppy disk all the time to load pieces of the OS which 
are required for the menu items you request. You know, the EMAX 
doesn't keep its full OS in memory, it only loads parts of it, 
depending of the function you request in the menu.

So when you boot the EMAX-II with an OS 2.14 disk, and then you want 
to format another disk, make sure you keep the OS 2.14 floppy disk in 
the drive until the moment of actual staring to format the other 
disk. Because the EMAX first has to load the software module for 
formatting disks from the original OS 2.14 disk. When you already 
switched disks too early (with the one to be formatted) the EMAX 
tries to find its OS on the new disk, doesn't find it of course, and 
hence thinks the disk contains a wrong OS and can not load its 
software. That's probably the cause of the error message.

When you want to copy the POLY800 bank to a disk with EMXP, make sure 
that the disk in the PC's floppy drive has first been formatted for 
EMAX usage before copying banks to it. You can do that with EMXP 
itself (another menu item) of on the EMAX-II (but hey, you tried that 
already... unsuccessfully :-)

I hope this helps !

///E-Synthesist



--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, nung242 <nung242@...> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>  I am a new member and new owner of an EMAX 2 SE keyboard.
> 
> I found EMXP and was able to create an o/s disk with 2.14. I had to 
replace the floppy drive ( I re-soldered a new floppy to DS00 like 
the post described ) it works great. Here are my problems:
> 
> I can boot the EMAX and access the menus and such. But when I try 
to format a new disk with the EMAX, it says " Different software rev."
> 
> I have tried to copy the poly800 EMAX bank to a floppy with EMXP, 
but it says that the disk was not formated for that type of file. ( I 
made sure to specify the type of sampler in the menu before I 
formated the floppy.) I am using dd/ds 720k verbatim floppies.
> 
> Thanks for any help, I know you guys are the masters of this 
wonderful sampler.
> 
> Jason
> 
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