Emax

only use 32mb for emax and 512 for emax 2 it would be a waste for the 4gb ones as they would be wasted space you can get 512 cards for $8

and 32mb for $3-5
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Elk Latham 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 4:03 PM
  Subject: Re: [emax] SCSI Kits, Zips, etc....


    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.

  ________________________________
  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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