Emax

Just to let you all know, I've solved my problem, and it was, as I suspected, dumb operator error!

When the message came up to select the SCSI Id of the drive to format, I was pressing the Drive Select button again, and getting the message "Not an EMAX2 Disk".  I should, of course, have just been pushing the numeric keypad #5 - simple as that!  I was tearing my hair out, but I knew it could be something that simple.

Thanks to those who made suggestions.

Cheers.

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "factormax86" <factormax86@...> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> Just joined the forum having just obtained an EMAX II (had an EMAX I for a while).
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> It's a 2212 that has been expanded to 4Mb memory.  I'm booting from floppy with OS v2.14.
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> I have a SCSI ZIP drive attached as SCSI #5 and with Termination set "on".
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> 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".
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> 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.
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> I've tried it with both re-used and brand new unopened ZIP 100 disks, and it's no different.
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> 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.
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> I looked at EMXP, but that also says it can not format an EMAX2 ZIP.
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> 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?)
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> Any help welcome.
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