Emax

I am using the PCMCIA card reader (and 2 gb transcend CF card) sold with the PCD-50B at a4000T.com.  

How are you making the SE HD-formatted floppies? Are you formatting them and copying the OS onto them entirely via your computer?  Or are you formatting them and copying the OS from the old emax hard drive entirely within the emax?

If you haven't done so already, I recommend doing what I did, formatting them in the emax, and copying the OS onto them from your computer via omnifloppy.  I would make sure your problem isn't the old technology (emax, its floppy drive and old HD), which is of course most likely to be problematic, before I would suspect the 50B, PCMCIA or flash card.  

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "mcnik_k" <nikkinloch@...> wrote:
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> Thanks.
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> My Emax shows EmaxSE HD Rev1.1 in 'Special'.
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> Wondering if 16 or 32 bit PCMCIA cards has anything to do with it?
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> What brand card read you all using?
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> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, brendanrenne@ wrote:
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> > I figured this out yesterday and got my emax to run with the 50B as the hard drive.  Here's how:
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> > 1. the guy who sold me the emax said that it was an HD SE, but that the SE sticker had 'come off'.  I believed him because he had perfect ebay feedback, and it included the HD SE manual.  Turns out he was wrong; it was only an EMAX HD.  As someone else in this group said, you cannot use a flash card for the HD unless the emax has been updated to an SE.  or so it would seem.
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> > 2.  I tried to use both EMX and Omniflop to format a floppy disk for use in the EMAX and neither worked.  I had to format the floppy in the actual emax first, and then install the SE upgrade (with omniflop) followed by the 'plus' OS (using EMX) onto the emax-formatted floppies.  Someone said something on here about how the floppy drives in the old emaxes can go out of spec; this is what happened.  
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> > hope this helps.
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