Emax

Hi all,

Just joined the forum having just obtained an EMAX II (had an EMAX I for a while).

It's a 2212 that has been expanded to 4Mb memory.  I'm booting from floppy with OS v2.14.

I have a SCSI ZIP drive attached as SCSI #5 and with Termination set "on".

I can't see anything in the manual about formatting ZIPs, but I went through the format process using the Master module and Option #5 "Format", and I get to the point where it says "Format Disk Select a Drive", and when I try to select SCSI #5, it says "Not an EMAX2 Disk".

I believe the ZIP drive is connected correctly because I can load banks from the ZIP disk that the previous owner supplied, and it works absolutely fine.

I've tried it with both re-used and brand new unopened ZIP 100 disks, and it's no different.

I tried formatting first on a PC using an USB ZIP250 drive, but again, the EMAX II won't recognise it as an EMAX2 disk.

I looked at EMXP, but that also says it can not format an EMAX2 ZIP.

Is there something obvious I'm doing wrong?  (For example, is there any write-protection on a ZIP disk - I can't see anything obvious like there is on a floppy?)

Any help welcome.