Emax

Thanks for your help
much appreciated

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Ted Summers <djtbs1@...> wrote:

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> >>This has been covered b4 probably but i just noticed the seup file
> is 800kb and i thought emax's only formatted to standard 720kb?
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> The file works when the disk is created with Emaxutil. That is all I
> can say.
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> >> how do i create a dos6.22 boot disk on floppy from windows vista?
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> I just do it, I can't explain it. It has never been difficult for me.
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> >>(ive tried it on cd and it says driver missing). Is it the whole
> fat32 ntfs thing?
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> to make a bootable dos CD you have to load in a CD driver into
> config.sys and autoexec.bat
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> It can be a pain to make one , but can be done.
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> CDs are not ntfs or fat32, there are a different type (High Sierra FS
> or Rockridge or something like that).
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> >>Other question is which floppy drives can you use in the emax.
> I think i might have to make some jumper adjustments or even
> cut the cable and do a bit of swapping. Ive read that the sony mpf920
> works and the other question is... which one (mpf920-e -f z/121)
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> The jumpers on the model I had were SMT, so had to be soldered. And
> they changed the board after that rev, so I dunno if you can still do
> that mod.
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> But you should be able to modify a floppy cable by matching Schugart
> floppy pinouts to PC floppy pinouts, cut some of the wires in the
> ribbon and cross wire as needed.
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> It will leave a gap, but it is what it is.
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> Or if you have an internal SCSI Zip or CF you can get a slim floppy
> and one of my converters.
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> See a pic here:
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> http://djtbs1.spaces.live.com/
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> pic #4
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> >>Once youve made the switch can you use hd disks?
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> You still need to cover the hole, but I have never had any problem
> with my slim floppy drives and HD disks for samples.
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> Regards,
>
> Ted
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