Emax

What happens if you also put a bank on the same disk ?
I assume until now you only formatted the disk and put the OS on it. 
But all emax disks can have the OS and a soundbank on the very same 
disk, so an "OS-only" disk is not really in the vocabulary of Emax :-)

I know that my Emax always tries to load a bank immediately after 
booting, so that's quite normal. But if it doesn't find a bank on the 
disk it should quit that process and end up with an empty bank in 
memory.
So it seems your Emax thinks there's actually a bank on the disk but 
while reading it it gets a disk read error. This could be due to an 
old or bad floppy disk, or due to your drive.
So just to make sure what's happening I would suggest to put also a 
real sound bank on the same disk (eg with EMXP) and see what happens.
If it still gives a disk error, try other disks. Also if your Emax 
drive hasn't been used for a long period of time, I would suggest to 
try to read disks several times (10, 20, ...). On my old 80's PC's I 
also have to keep retrying reading disks just to get the 
diskdrive "alive" again :-)

///E-Synthesist

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "Brooks Mosher" <brooksmosher@...> wrote:
>
> hi, i've been following this group for a while and i've even 
uploaded some
> sample banks up on here.
> 
> i bought an Emax recently for cheap but it wasn't guaranteed to 
work.  when
> i first got it i didn't have an OS disk but i turned it on and the 
screen is
> nice and blue and it powered up.  it asked "please insert disk".  
now i have
> the OS copied onto a diskette thanks to the emulator archive, EMXP, 
and
> omnifloppy.  so i power up the Emax with the OS disk, it boots up, 
but then
> the screen indicates "loading bank" and then disk error.  my last 
Emax
> wouldn't try to load a bank from an OS disk, so i'm wondering if 
anyone here
> knows what i did wrong.  or if maybe the disk drive is bad.  any 
input would
> be very much appreciated!!
> 
> thanks in advance!!!!
> 
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