Emax

Yes, its an emax 2, sorry about the verbage. hehe

I cant get past picking format disk, it gives me the
error on "bird run", and a few other choices it say "
different software rev. "

I formated the disk with EMXP, and I have a question
about that. Can I use the EM1/EB1 format directly in
the EMAX 2, or do I need to use the converter in EMXP
to change it to a EM2/EB2? I format the disk in EMXP,
then when I try to copy a an image to the floppy, it
stops after a second and says " this disk is most
likely not formatted to the specified sampler format" 
 ( I made sure to specify EMAX 2  at the beginig)
Sorry to be such an newb.

I have an internal HD ( scsi quantum/apple 250mb set
as scsi1, but it keeps saying its not an emax disk
when I use drive select to chose it, the person I
bought it from said it was set up as an emax disk
already with sample banks pre installed.)  go figure.

Thanks! PS - My day job is IT, you can get deeper
technically if need be. hehe
--- esynthesist <esynthesist@...> wrote:

> 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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