Emax

Hey thanks so much for the reply again! Not 100% sure now especially
since there've been recent incidents where it says: Bad Bank on Disk,
or Disk Error. You got me thinking about that now.

I just did manage to fire her up just now but the HD goes silent.
First I should say I jiggled the wired inside connecting to the floppy
but it still acts the same. Had to try it.

It wanted a 16bit Emax II disk and it was able to turn on with that in
the drive. Then I started running Diagnostics (not knowing what I'm
doing) by typing in 3628 in Master 9.

So far everything checks out but the floppy is running some Loooong
routine that won't end and as far as checking the HD it only
identified it as a Quantum drive.

I could have a bad floppy and since the HD shuts down right after
turning on I could have a bad HD. So how long does this floppy test
last ("VERIFY - soft - hard")?

To answer your question though, it now only boots from a 16bit floppy
in the drive ... it doesn't boot "from" the HD at all (I got that
whole process wrong before).


--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "Rish" <rish@...> wrote:
>
> Ok so you are sure the floppy loads 100%, formats 100% and saves
100%? When this happens are you booting for the HD only.
> R
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: sanctifiedonesky 
>   To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 7:39 PM
>   Subject: [emax] Re: Urgent question about Emax II Floppy Drive
> 
> 
>   Well the confusion is my fault be I've "heard" that the Emax II looks
>   for Floppy Drive first at startup