Emax

Thanks Jammie!

It is working here now as well :-)

I tried putting the Emax Plus 1.0 operating system onto floppy using EMXP, but was having problems, so I tried doing it onto my windows formatted Kodak 128mb CF card, but that in the machine, and BOOF it worked straight away!

Everything is so much quicker.

Saves and loads fine.

35 banks at my disposal.

Thanks for all your help, I think I'd have got frustrated and given up if you weren't able to fix my machine in the first instance, and figure out this problem in the second. If anyone is having a problem with their Emax, I would not hesitate in recommending Jammie.

All the best!





--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "jammie" <jammie.emma@...> wrote:
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> right the drive does work the os disks in the files section are duff
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> i got a fresh disk plus 1.0 os
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> and the drive works
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> instantly formats the card drive in seconds
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> and loads every time 
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> need to format disk in the emax as if done in exmp you get bank errors
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> i will upload the files to the files section
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: jammie 
>   To: emax@...m 
>   Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 10:18 PM
>   Subject: [emax] Re: another emax 1 + CF reader problem
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>   now i put this drive in a pc and it reads and writes to the cf card
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>   so it reads and writes but definetly does not work with the emax
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>   and takes ages to go through the routines of format and saving software
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>   on my other 1 it formats in seconds andwrites the os in seconds
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>   same for when using a zip drive its very fast at formating andsaving the os
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>   so i think if we flash these with the version that ted uses for the firmware i think every thing should be ok
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>   --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "jammie" <jammie.emma@> wrote:
>   >
>   > nik i put the drive in my sehd emax keyboard and put in a sandisk 512mb card with the os and banks on it
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>   > it does not see the drive bank error messages 
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>   > so i put a blank 32mb card in and tried to format it and again it went through all the motions and then bank error
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>   > i conclude that its the drive that is in error as the ones i had from ted which was in the machine works and this new one does not
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>   > ted can you please send your copy of the firmware for me to flash
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>   > also can some upload a good copy of the os sehd plus os as the one in the files section is currupt as it wont load the banks
>   > 
>   > thanks 
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>   > --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "mcnik_k" <nikkinloch@> wrote:
>   > >
>   > > Yeh I'm having the same exact problem here.
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>   > > No solution yet...
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>   > > --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, brendanrenne@ wrote:
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>   > > > My apologies for asking help with this topic; I spent a loooong time trying to figure this out for myself, and even thought I had it, but clearly I do not. 
>   > > > 
>   > > > I am trying to replace my emax HD SE's hard drive with the PCD-50B. I have the SCSI cable set up correctly, and I am using a SanDisk 512mb CF card via a PCMCIA adapter. I copied the jumper settings from Ted Summers' site. 
>   > > > 
>   > > > I downloaded EMXP and thought I had formatted said sandisk 512mb card. I opened up the emax, installed the PCD-50B with the CF card in the PCMCIA adapter and turned on the emax, fully expecting it to start up.
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>   > > > It didn't. 
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>   > > > I booted it from the floppy disk containing the 1.1 HD OS, which worked, and then tried to use the 'Master->Special->Format HD' function. The 50B lights up and it passes the 'formatting HD', 'loading bank "untitled 1 ", and gets as far as 'saving software' when it gets to the HD error screen and that's it. 
>   > > > 
>   > > > I purchased the PCD-50B from the a4000t.com website, which makes me think that it has the correct firmware (I think the website even makes this claim); nevertheless, tomorrow I am going to try to talk my girlfriend into letting me install this thing in her PC and updating its firmware. If this doesn't work, I have to say I am totally lost. 
>   > > > 
>   > > > If anyone can offer any kind of help, I would really appreciate it!
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