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Re: [emax] Emax Plus

2010-03-17 by RJ

Time to open it up for a third time... aaargh!

I've read the zip drive can be too much for the Emax PSU to handle.  Is this
true even if I don't have the floppy drive and hard drive connected?







On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Dave Sotnick <sotnickd@...> wrote:

>
>
> Ah, yes but you can fool the Emax into thinking a floppy drive is present.
>
> From my past post:
>
> "You can jumper pins 25/26 on the floppy 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 drive
> attached."
>
> -Dave
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Ted Summers <djtbs1@...<djtbs1%40gmail.com>>
> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > that is by design. it expects the floppy to be there.
> >
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