Emax

spryrus 2 works with the emax not version1

its the same for the pcd-50b they work with emaxes but not akai

and its also down to firmware 

sprus is an mcdisk1 and the spyrus2 is a mcdisk2 made by mpl and are still manufactured by them but it costs £550 for 1 drive


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Johnny Tomasello 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 9:57 PM
  Subject: Re: [emax] Just got my mac classic II


    
  With the CF reader, I connected it directly to the Emax, without the Zip, set the SCSI ID to 0, and used an active terminator. I've never had an internal HD in the Emax, so there was no ID conflict.

  The Emax would "see" the reader, but hang on the format option, and just never finish. I asked around and thought the drive was incompatable. I bought the Spyrus CF reader for my MPC 3000 because it was recommended specifically for it, as not all drives will work. So it seemed reasonable the same might be true for the Emax.

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  On Nov 29, 2011, at 4:30 PM, el macaco <elmacaco@...> wrote:

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  > With the CF reader, did you get the emax to recognize the scsi CF reader at all? Sometimes the termination needs to be on or off, it might need an active terminator, try the scsi zip after the CF reader with term on.
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  > Also, if you have a working HD scsi ID zero is the HD, so it can't read both.
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  > The CF card reader should work with the emax, maybe try both slots.
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  > To: emax@yahoogroups.com
  > From: johnny@...
  > Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:21:06 -0500
  > Subject: Re: [emax] Just got my mac classic II
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  > Yeah, I've tried to boot without the floppy in the drive, but it won't look to the external SCSI Zip. I tested my MPC 3000's CF reader (spyrus) set ti SCSI ID 0, with the Emax, but it didn't work.
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  > I'll have to contact Ted about the cards.
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  > Thanks, everyone, for your input.
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  > On Nov 29, 2011, at 4:05 PM, "jammie" <jammie.emma@...> wrote:
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  >> i know that in the emax sehd os that it only saw scsi id0 and would only boot and save and load from scsi id0 but i thuoght that the plus os you were able to choose any scsi and load from it do you try and load with no floppy disk in 
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  >> as if you leavre floppy disk in it will always boot from that first unless it has no os and then it will boot from scsi
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  >> i have cf drives in mine so i have never used external drives
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  >> and before that i had a miniscribe 20mb drive that came with the unit
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