Emax

Ted,

You know my set-up.  I have the slim drive...  Suddenly, I can't format the cards anymore.  Either the CF Cards, or the SD/CF Card Adapter... with start to format, then screen goes blank......or will say....disk error.  If you search in here, in the past, i did the normal EMXP Disk Image, add OS and Restore to the drive pop it in, and presto!....Now, nothing is working...

Paul

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, Ted Summers <djtbs1@...> wrote:
>
> This kind of scenario is exactly why I say it is good to have a floppy in
> your emax and not remove it.
> If the CF or ZIp has a problem, with a floppy installed (slim drive with the
> zip or CF, or the stock drive), you can simply reformat the SCSI "disk" on
> the emax from your floppy and you are back in business....
> 
> just my .02.
> 
> Ted
> 
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:13 AM, PaulD <pauldays1@...> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > It's a No-Go. This is odd, I did this before like 3 times.....I've been
> > reading long and dunno what happened. I'm even gonna update the firmware on
> > the SCSi-IDE Bridge, which I heard helped someone, but i the past this wasnt
> > an issue.
> >
> > Any other tip?
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > --- In emax@yahoogroups.com <emax%40yahoogroups.com>, "esynthesist"
> > <esynthesist@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Physically formatting a disk on a PC for use in the Emax-II is not
> > possible.
> > > But there's a work around which doesn't require the CF card to be
> > formatted by the Emax-II at all and still results in a disk which will be
> > accepted by the Emax-II (so no "Not Emax2 Disk" error).
> > >
> > > You could try this:
> > > 1/ Create a blank hard disk image for Emax-II in EMXP (menu 1.5.3).
> > Select the 96MB image size
> > > 2/ Add the Emax-II OS and your banks to this image (menu 1.4...3 and menu
> > 1.1...4)
> > > 3/ Write this image to your 128MB CF card on your PC, e.g. with a USB CF
> > card adapter (menu 1.5.1...3)
> > > PS: make sure to use EMXP version 2.07.5 !
> > >
> > > This *could* work.
> > > The trick is that the hard disk image written to the unformatted disk
> > should be *smaller* than the disk's actual capacity. I have to find out
> > still how much the size gap should be at minimum. I know this information is
> > coded somewhere in the filesystem, so I should be able to reverse engineer
> > it in the near future...
> > >
> > > Anyway I just tested the approach with a 96MB image on a 1GB CF card and
> > that works fine... but I admit that this is quite a big size gap :)
> > >
> > > Perhaps you can let us know if it also works with a 96MB image on a 128MB
> > card ?
> > >
> > > ///E-Synthesist
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In emax@yahoogroups.com <emax%40yahoogroups.com>, "PaulD"
> > <pauldays1@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Well, for some reason I lost the CF card I had my banks in. And
> > remember in the past, and I even checked the old post...that I did copy the
> > OS and banks to a CF card via EMXP. Now I did the same steps on a new
> > card....128mb Kodak CF and the emax reads Not EMAX2 disk, and I cannot
> > format it in the EMAX II. Never could.
> > > >
> > > > So... what are my options? anybody sorted the Format Emax II using our
> > PCs?
> > > >
> > > > What can I do....
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Paul
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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