Emax

Nice trick!  Would this bypass the floppy search in the beginning?  My machine always takes a minute to read the floppy even though I have the boot device as SCSI.

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, Dave Sotnick <sotnickd@...> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Elk Latham <elk_latham@...> wrote:
> >
> > emax I or emax II won't boot without an floppy drive connected.
> >
> 
> This isnt strictly true. You can jumper pins 25/26 on the flopy drive
> connector on the motherboard (it/s the /TRK0 sense pin which tells the
> Emax the drive head is on Track 0). Once you do this, you'll be able
> to boot the Emax with no floppy attached.
> 
> -Dave
>