Emax

I finally got my Emax back in action after a long time of not being able to set it up for propper use (Emax HD/SE with Plus OS and internal SCSI )  After I got the HD working and everything seemed to work ust fine, the HD died.  To be expected I guess, and although I have and use an external Zip, the ID 5 /6 thing keeps me from booting from it.
 
The only reason i liked the HD was because the software booting from it makes using the Emax much faster than dealing with floppy access times when booting from Floppy.
 
So dead HD, and I start digging through my scsi crap, and I find an external SCSI card reader I got years ago for my MPC-60, also retired at the moment in favor of the MPC 1000 (yeah yeah, blasphemy I know, but JJ got it right, and it's small which is nice when space is an issue).  So this external drive can select any scsi ID, so I aimed to get it to be my boot drive.  Interestingly enough, with the internal HD dead (not spinning and when it was spinning giving me HD format errors whenever i tried to format it) the external card reader would not be recognized at ID 0.  I guess there still was conflict, as I couldn't get to it or format it.  So I unhooked the power and internal scsi cables from the internal HD, and got the external card reader to format (took a lot longer than I thought it should, but it has been a while) and be my boot drive.
 
I still use Zips since I have a bunch of them with sounds, and I still have a fair few floppies and like having the floppy drive around in case of whatever finding old disks, making someone else a disk, etc.  But I kept toying with the idea of mounting the card reader internally instead of the HD, just to reduce clutter and have it neat and tidy in the rack unit, but it would be a waste to just have it in there without having access to it.  So...
 
is it possible to fit an internal card reader and a new floppy drive in the emax disk drive slot simultaneously?  I don't want to lose floppy functionality, maybe with a laptop floppy drive?  Has anyone done this?  I think I may have seen this before, and I am pretty sure I am not the first to think of this or try to do it.
 
As for the card reader, I have to say it is amazing how quiet the emax is now without the internal HD.  I must say I will probably miss it's 'Wirrrrrrrclickzipzip... Wirrrrr' start up sound, but it is so nice to have it be quiet now.  So if you're thinking about it, get one!!
 
So yeah, I'm ranting a bit, I am just happy to have the emax back in action, I thought some of you might understand ;)
 



To: emax@yahoogroups.comFrom: louis@...: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:38:45 +0100Subject: Re: [emax] Re: scsi bus



>> have you got the term on the back of the zip drive to 1Termination is on (that's what I said in my first post).> and it will> only work on channel 5 with the terminator on if you dont have a> terminator on then the signal wont bounce back and you get an open loop I've tried all IDs from 1 to 6 without any luck. If it boots fromthe HD, it only sees the HD. If it boots from the ZIP, it only seesthe ZIP. It won't see both. It's just as if it stops scanning afterfinding the first bootable scsi device.By they way, this is a regular scsi ZIP (with all IDs available), notthe crippled blue box with only two IDs. 





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