Emax

Esynthesist-

After all you have done to help this group as you have, I think I speak for
most of us, if not all, when I say your posts are welcome, whatever they may
be.....

I noticed the inability to scan earlier posts myself recently.

I dunno what may be wrong. I am not sure.

.....termination pwr jumper missing for the drive or missing termination
resistors?
....the drive is on the last connector of the cable....correct?
You say no external HD is hooked, do you have an external Zip hooked????

Can you clarify exactly the scsi chain-

for example:
emax board ------   scsi cable------  last connector of cable ------ HD
HD settings- which HD and what jumpers are there....
Confirm value of the termination resistors- they should be 220/330ohm.

My Compact Flash drives are set as ID 0 on my Rack and keyboard. I have slim
floppy on both units.
They work as you describe  in the "bottom line" section of your post-
If floppy is present, boot from it, if no floppy, boot from CF/HD......

I am using SE Plus 1.0 OS.

Regards,
Ted


On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:22 AM, esynthesist <esynthesist@...> wrote:

>   The problem below has probably been posted here before, but the
> search engine on the yahoo groups seems not to scan older messages
> anymore, so I thought I'm "allowed" give it another try:
>
> I just connected a hard disk to my Emax Plus Rack. Except for the
> floppy drive, no other hard drive is connected to the Emax. The SCSI
> ID of the HD is set to 0.
> The problem is: the Emax only wants to boot from the floppy. Once
> this is done, it recognizes the HD on SCSI ID O and I can load/unload
> banks from it. The HD also contains the Plus operating system: it has
> been formatted by the Emax and I performed an additional "copy
> software" just to be sure...
>
> Now I read about this "cheat" of the floppy connector on the
> motherboard (jumper between pins 25 and 26).
> But that's mainly used for replacing the floppy drive by an internal
> ZIP drive and making sure that the Emax still thinks a floppy drive
> is connected. That's not what I want.
>
> Bottom line: I don't understand this boot issue with the Emax. In the
> original documentation of Emu, it seemed perfectly possible to have
> an Emax with both an internal HD and a floppy drive. When booting,
> the Emax should first check the floppy drive; if no floppy disk is
> found, the Emax should boot from the HD on SCSI ID 0.
> It doesn't do that on mine, it doesn't even check the SCSI chain, it
> immediately asks to insert a disk.
>
> So what do you think I'm doing wrong ?
>
> Thanks
>
> ///E-Synthesist
>
> 
>


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