Emax

Paul-

I don't have an emax 2.
I have no way of testing.
I do not know what drive sizes are valid for an emax 2.
The original HD was a 520MB if I recall from what I have read here on  
the group in the past.
Did you try a 512MB SD?

What I can say about CF is this:
1) It could be an incompatible PCMCIA to CF/SD adapter
2) It could be the actual SD itself is incompatible.
3) Also- and this is possibly very important.
You may not want one of the newer "high speed" SD cards.
The emax units have a very old and SLOW scsi bus.
Too quick of a response time of the SD card could cause an issue.
The chances of a high speed SD card being incompatible would be  
increased.
So the other question would be- is your SD a high speed SD card?

Digital camera enthusiasts may want the fastest biggest SD around, but  
your emax 2 may not like a card with those features....

Regards,
Ted







On Apr 4, 2009, at 3:21 PM, pauldays1 wrote:

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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