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Re: [emax] Emax 1 Repair

2012-05-11 by jammie

yes you need to download the updated floppy image i put on the site as thats a known working floppy that works with the scsi upgrade

all your old os disks wont work
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bob King 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 10:36 PM
  Subject: Re: [emax] Emax 1 Repair


    
  thanks jammie, 

  actually i should have mentioned that i started to fit the slim floppy drive and card reader option a while back and the unit has not been used for a while. i did buy the scsi upgrade and fitted that into the board too.

  i think i might be missing some software update for the new scsi set up though .as any of the discs that previously worked on the SE give either disc  error; timeout error, or disc not formatted messages, when one disc did start to load, the green sequencer light came on and an insert disc message appeared. after which the unit was unresponsive. 
  so i'm a bit stuck at this point

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  From: jammie <jammie.emma@...>
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, 11 May 2012, 22:33
  Subject: Re: [emax] Emax 1 Repair


    
  thats a bad floppy drive

  it cant boot when the 2 led,s stay on

  easy fix get a replacement floppy drive 

  make sure yoou can get 1 with ds0 and ry signals as jumpers

  what revision is the mother board 

  if its a revision2/3 then you can upgrade it to scsi and fit a slim floppy drive with a slim floppy convertor

  and a pcd-50b scsi to pcmcia cf card drive fast cheap and 32mb cards go for £3-5 each so its easy to make a big collection

  my EII library is 800 floppy banks

  you get 35 banks per cf card you would need 23 cf cards just for my EII collection and its growing as im adding new sample content daily

  love the EII sound and the emax is close in sounding identical
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bob King 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 8:54 PM
  Subject: Re: [emax] Emax 1 Repair

  It won't boot from the floppy disc. It starts with a diagnostics message then says loading software after which it hangs.. I can't get any of the buttons to respond either. The red light between Stop and Analog Processingstays on all the time.

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  From: jammie <jammie.emma@...>
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, 11 May 2012, 21:44
  Subject: Re: [emax] Emax 1 Repair

  whats wrong with it
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bob King 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 8:37 PM
  Subject: [emax] Emax 1 Repair

  Hi folks, is there anyone in the Berlin area that can repair an Emax 1?

  Thanks in advance

  Bob 

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