Emax

Hello,

My Emax 1 formats & boots with Acard 7720uw (+IDE->CF & CF 32mb. I can also save banks - but when I try to load the the Emax says "hard disk error". Strange...

/Johan Blomgren

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "jammie" <jammie.emma@...> wrote:
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> that scsi to ide card dont work with older samplers the scsi 1 standard voltage implimentation for termination this card does not provide and wont see older samplers that use it thesre cards only work with later spec scsi 2 samplers like the yamaha a3000 akai s3000xl and kurzweils which these are better for as they dont have the time lag of the scsi1 versions
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> through tests and trials the only cards that work with the emax1 are acard a720u 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: tstimac02 
>   To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010 2:23 AM
>   Subject: [emax] E-Max I and CF card issues what am i doing wrong?
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>   I just can't get this thing working.
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>   I bought one of these SCSI->IDE converters:
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>   http://tinyurl.com/2udnh9m
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>   And a standard internal CF card reader (IDE). You can see them on the pic here: 
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>   http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/3707/32571720.jpg
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>   Connected everything. When i go to Format, it says Formating Disk for about 5 seconds, then it says writing a bank (or something) and hangs that way forever. In fact it does that even when nothing is connected to SCSI. 
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>   You can see here that scsi cable is normally connected: 
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>   http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/4458/79206736.jpg
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>   Difficult to see on pic, but red stripe is on the left side of the cable (which means connected properly).
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>   I've became suspicious about this IDE card reader. I put it in the PC but couldn't have BIOS recognize it properly. Maybe that's the problem?
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>   Thanks for any input!!
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