Emax

I bought it used off ebay since there was a bit of talk of it working with the MPC60 (mine does not have SCSI), but I am all about the Emax now!

I will be doing your slim floppy/scsi card reader soon. Just trying to get it booted today. There is usually a good computer/electronics swap meet in my area next Sunday and hope to come back from it ready to get it up and running.

Ted (or anyone else), would you like me to look for anything for you? Just let me know.

What is weird about the existing floppy drive is that it looks new, very clean heads. Upon turning on the Emax Plus the floppy head advances 3 clicks stops (with any version of the OS), with the "loading software" message and that is far as it gets. I am currently on a quest to setup a SCSI PC, format an old DEC SCSI 535MB drive on LUN 0 and see if I can get it booted.

Thanks! Jeff



--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, Ted Summers <djtbs1@...> wrote:
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> What the guy talks about having a switch to turn on / off the S0 (select 0) to change the virtual floppy - I don't know if that works on Emax.
> What he is doing isn't even the right way.
> If you were going to toggle anything, it should be the Floppy drive change line.
> That is the functionality a system actually uses to see a floppy disk was removed and inserted.
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> the version you have (from what he said) would have to be the 700k version of the unit.
> If not, it would format to the wrong size and Emax would't work with it.
> Emax uses DSDD, not DSHD.
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> Going to the Gotek Systems website was worthless- no links, no product listing, no general information, nothing!
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> I don't understand why people want to do some "virtual floppy", when if you setup a SCSI disk you can have access to 35 banks directly through the Emax menu????
> in other words- the factory created / supported solution for having multiple banks.
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> On Sep 23, 2012, at 9:59 AM, dawtechie wrote:
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> Anyone have any knowledge on the Gotek? I bought it before I picked up my Emax Plus. Looking for help on jumper settings before trying it out.
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> Here is a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muv25T_nRs4
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