Emax

CF cards to be used in an Emax-I (=Baldwin Ike) can simply be formatted by DOS/Windows. 
Then use EMXP to generate an empty 20MB .EZ1 file, copy an Emax OS to this image (and sound banks) and copy=restore this image to the CF card.
It should load and work fine on the Baldwin.

EMXP can't format memory cards for Emax-II and Emulator-III, unless you use cards having a physical size which is at least twice the capacity that you will use on Emax-II and Emulator-III. 
E.g. if you generate an .EZ2 Emax-II hard disk image with EMXP sized 850MB and copy it to a standard formatted (FAT16) CF card of 2GB, it will probably work on the Emax-II...

///E-Synthesist

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "soundsubs" <soundsubs@...> wrote:
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> > 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. 
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> > 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. 
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> > 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?
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> 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.
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