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Re: How to Format Emax II Hard Drive, after CF/SD Card Upgrade?("HD not EMAX2"Error)

2009-04-04 by pauldays1

Ted,

I tried using a 1GB SD card, no luck either  :-(

Paul


--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, Ted Summers <djtbs1@...> wrote:
>
> I can't answer on an Emax 2- I don't have one (yet).
> 
> Regards,
> Ted
> 
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:49 AM, thenewyorkcowboy <
> thenewyorkcowboy@...> wrote:
> 
> >   --- In emax@yahoogroups.com <emax%40yahoogroups.com>, "pauldays1"
> > <pauldays1@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I did the CF/SD Card upgrade. Have this drive as a secondary, keeping the
> > disk drive as the first. I just got my keyboard back from repairing 2 broken
> > keys. I go through the MASTER menu and decide to format a 128MB SD Card
> > which is loaded but I get the "HD not EMAX2" error on the LCD.
> > >
> > > What should I do?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> > This is exactly my fear as well from our earlier exchange where I had a
> > theoretical idea of what to do but wasn't getting it to work with my CF
> > reader in my laptop. With all the varied sizes and makes of CF cards, it may
> > be a compatibility issue. As well, if you have a CF reader on your computer,
> > there is no way to format the CF through the EMXP software, only a way to
> > create CDROM and ZIP images of 100,239,and 639mb. MAYBE a solution is to try
> > writing a ZIP100 image to the card, when assigned to H: in your computer,
> > but the basic recognition of the card is the dilemma.
> >
> > Maybe a solution is to download the diagnostics manual here:
> >
> > http://www.emulatorarchive.com/assets/PDF/Emax%20II%20Diagnostics.pdf
> >
> > And see if there is some HD diagnostic portion such as MASTER,9,9,3629,8
> > that will allow the Emax to correct the reason why it cannot recognize the
> > drive. I dunno, as I haven't gotten my CF upgrade finished yet. Ted or
> > Esynthesist would be the best one to answer.
> >
> > 
> >
> 
> 
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>

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