Emax

Hi all,

My Emax II setup is pretty organised now. Everything appears to work fine and I am even using it as a controller keyboard for my other hard- and softsynths.

I have a 100Mb Zipplus connected to the Emax. It turned out to be inconvenient to disconnect it from the Emax and use it with the kids computer (the only one with a parallel port) so I scored a USB zip drive from eBay (99p), which hopefully should arrive soon. Even so, I was able to successfully download banks from the web and load them into the Emax using EMXP.

Some questions (I'm a zip drive newbie so please excuse my ignorance): 

- I got 10 zipdisks from eBay. Five were still in their original wrappers and all formatted OK. Three of the rest made the drive click ominously. I should bin these, right? Is there any chance the other drive might be able to format them? One other clicked a bit but formatted in the end to 94 MB instead of 95MB. Is it safe to use this disk?

- What are the chances that the USB drive will actually be able to read and write disks formatted in the other drive? I ask because I remember that in the days of the diskette this could not always be taken for granted.

Thanks,

Daniel