Emax

Hummmm well you could have a bad Floppy drive, I'm not surprised these are old drives and are reaching the limit of their operation. What happens is that the drives head wears out and will no longer read discs.
 Richard
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: sanctifiedonesky 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 10:27 PM
  Subject: [emax] Re: Urgent question about Emax II Floppy Drive


  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



  

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