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Re: [emax] Re: problem with internal HD

2011-10-06 by Ted Summers

You are setting the physical jumpers on the drive to 1 and then booting from
floppy and changing to ID 1 in the Emax2 menu, right?

Because if you do one without doing both, then it will never work.



On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Aivis Mamajevs <pelecis@...> wrote:

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> I tried all ways, set a scsi 0 and 1, but nothing changes,  Iomega jaz disc
> and the floppy disc can be formatted, but HD not. What other options are?
>
> ________________________________
> From: Ted Summers <djtbs1@...>
> To: emax@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2011 5:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [emax] Re: problem with internal HD
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>
> That isn't entirely true.
> While it is correct that on Emax 2 the SCSI ID cannot be 0 for the HD, I
> have Emax 1 and Emax 2 BOTH with SD card media and it boots from them.
>
> If you have set the setting for SCSI ID in Emax 2 after booting once from
> floppy, from there you should be able to boot from that SCSI ID.
>
> The 5380 SCSI controller in Emax is not smart enough to really know that a
> drive is a removable media or not, from my experience, or research.
>
> Regards,
> Ted
>
> On Oct 5, 2011, at 4:27 PM, jaumemod wrote:
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> Dear folk, checking your SCSI ID , in EMAX SCSI 0 is reserved to floppy.
> Checking your default SCSI HD ID, must be 1 to 7.
>
> Put terminator jumper on HD if it is in the end of SCSI chain.
>
> In case you use a SCSI chain disconect other devices letting alone HD and
> tr y to format.
>
> Emax OS won't start from removable media HD.
>
> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "Aivis Mamajevs" <pelecis@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, what could be the fault? When I turn on the internal Quantum HD LCD
> read "not emax2 drive." Trying to format HD LCD read "scsi hardware error".
> I tried to connect to other HD, but it is the same.
> > Help please!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Aivis
> >
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