Emax

In addition to possible corrupt OS, also double check your cables and
termination on the scsi drive.....

Just a thought.

Flaky cable or terminator could cause SCSI H/W errors.

Regards,
Ted

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:20 AM, jammie <jammie.emma@...>wrote:

>
>
> also update the firmware of the scsi to ide reader some have old os and
> dont work properly with the emaxes
>
> if you ask ted he has the up to date os firm for the acards he will tell
> you which one works best also
>
> to do this you will need a scsi interface on a computer and a ide device to
> plug the scsi to ide reader in
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lee
> To: emax@yahoogroups.com <emax%40yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 1:25 PM
> Subject: [emax] Re: EMAXII errors: "No Presets Exist" and no memory
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the advice about the Transcend cards. I have some Sandisk and
> Kingston ones but they kept giving me SCSI hardware or media errors. I will
> persist with them though. Get a few variations of cards.
>
> Yeah - when I clear the bank, the memory returns to full capacity and I can
> always load from floppy or from external SCSI Zip.
>
> If I boot from floppy with a bank or create a preset, I can then swap to
> the internal CF card and save the bank there. It seems to have done it (no
> error messages)... then - the no memory issue and the lovely "no presets
> exist" message. I'm using OS 2.14 and will try a few other floppies, just in
> case the current disk is corrupt, which is may well be. Thanks for pointing
> that out.
>
> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com <emax%40yahoogroups.com>, "jammie"
> <jammie.emma@...> wrote:
> >
> > dont use transcend cards they never work properly with any of the
> samplers sandisk are the most reliable
> >
> > it also sounds like you have a os problem or that the os is currupted
> some how and is causing memry problems
> >
> > when you clear the memory are you able to access the presets and load
> banks
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Lee
> > To: emax@yahoogroups.com <emax%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 11:24 AM
> > Subject: [emax] EMAXII errors: "No Presets Exist" and no memory
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Has anyone had this issue while booting from CF card in the EMAX II...
> >
> > I'm using the Acard AEC7720U SCSI-to-IDE bridge, trying a variety of
> IDE-CF card readers and a variety of CF cards.
> >
> > All the IDE-CF card readers / adaptors seem to format and boot OK.
> > Half the CF cards themselves seem to work fine (some have SCSI hardware
> errors, so I put those to one side and stick to the ones that work -
> Transcend 2GB for example).
> >
> > But even though I can format a card and the EMAX II will boot from it,
> when I then access any menu, the display will read: "No presets exist". When
> I check the memory, it is full - no space at all to create anything! I can
> clear the memory and return to the full 8 megs and I can switch to the
> floppy drive and work from that, so it's this problem is not locking the
> machine up, and there are no hardware or SCSI errors, just memory issues.
> >
> > Any help with this would be appreciated,
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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