Emax

> It has been said many times to use small flash like 32 or 64MB.
> You will have varied success with a large flash like 1GB.
>>>indeed, going to try this next. but i still dont understand why EXMP won't format it? i thought i read elsewhere (on here?) that someone had formatted one in their emax? and somewhere else that someone had tricked it by formatting with exmp and been able to read/write more than 20mb on a single disk. 


> Have you tried them in a PC with SCSI to verify operation in windows?
>>>good idea, but not the point. the drive(s) are fine, as i've swapped the "smoked" one--- which might not be bad at all-- with a known good one. neither worked. 

> did you get floppy converters and modify them? 
>>>no floppy converter. the new floppy came with a ribbon cable to convert to the 34 pin floppy controller on the emax mobo. so im not sure that i need to modify it?

if i fried the floppy controller--- which i may well have--- is there a diagnosis for this? i would imagine it wouldnt read "disk not formatted" over and over.