Emax

I'd be interested in a CF kit. 
Do you know what the max size CF card that could be used?
For instance. I have a EVI xt and the card reader/writer I installed can't work with anything larger then 4 GB cards.
It's a limitation of the drive.




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From: Ted Summers <djtbs1@...>
To: emax@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 6:41:05 AM
Subject: [emax] SCSI Kits, Zips, etc....

  
I know SCSI Zip may be getting hard to find.
I tested IDE Zip with Acard SCSI bridge and that works fine.

I have easily found internal IDE Zip drives for as little as $5.
There is a stack at my local used computer outlet, as well as brand 
new ones......which cost more, but I dunno how much more.

Just letting folks know that is another tested combination.

I have recently restocked all parts for kits and have another 10 kits 
available.

One other thing- I found a page for making your own SCSI CF drive. The 
PCB have to be made, but firmware already created and free under GNU 
or GPL license.
Common parts to build it.

Was thinking about investigating costs associated with making this.

Peoples thoughts- should I really dig into this to see what the cost 
would be? How many would be interested?
I don't think it would be the $250 some are charging for CF drives......

Regards,
Ted

On Aug 9, 2009, at 11:59 AM, jammie wrote:

ZIP DISKS ARE FINE and cheap try and get a + model as they are less 
prone to the disk of death clicking syndrome or get a cf flash drive

which consists of a scsi to ide adapter bridge card and get a apro 
pcmcia to ide these are hot swapable you just need a pcmcia to compact 
flash converter card i use 32mb compact flash disks

the card is a acard 50 pin ultra scsi to ide interface card cpl have 
some second hand 1.s for $30 the apro card is about $60 the reson i 
say the apro one is its hot swap any ide to cf card is not becuase the 
ide buss was never resetable how the apro pcmcia card drive works is 
it has a interface chip that deals with the ide and the interface chip 
is able to reset the pcmcia card with out dissabling the ide buss
----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel Baum
To: emax@yahoogroups. com
Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: [emax] Just joined the groups - hi all.

Thanks everyone for replying to my mail.

Since I last wrote I have tested the floppy and it does work - I was 
able to
create a bootable OS disk.

I have a big pile of diskettes left over from old computers but most 
of them
are HD, and the Emax doesn't seem to like them even if you format them 
as DD
in the emax. Is this right?

My only real worry is the longevity of the hard disk, which I would 
like to
back up as soon as possible. The cheapest option seems to be a Zip 
drive,
which are available on eBay for next to nothing. I never had one of 
these
even when they were new. Are they reliable?

Another option would be to put together an external hard disk. I found 
what
appears to be the right kind of enclosure, but very small 50-pin SCSI 
disks
seem to be pretty thin on the ground, even on eBay. Does anyone have any
suggestions where I might find one?

Thanks,

D.

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