Emax

Well the DIY CF thing is too expensive. I looked up some of the parts and to
build it would cost upwards of $100 per unit in raw parts, plus time.
I was trying to find a way to do something for under $100 per unit.

Oh well.....




On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Elk Latham <elk_latham@...>wrote:

>
>
> 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@... <djtbs1%40gmail.com>>
> To: emax@yahoogroups.com <emax%40yahoogroups.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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