Emax

This Emax is like new, it could be the floppy stopped working early on and the unit was boxed and put away. The person I bought it from knows nothing of its background, they found it at a flea market about 100 miles away from E-mu. There is also no history of repair or upgrade work listed on the inside sticker.

So, if it is a plus model, I have to get it booted before I can access SCSI drives other than LUN 0? I will double check the pins, connectors, cable, etc.

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "jammie" <jammie.emma@...> wrote:
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> if its got the loading software message then its looking for a floppy or scsi device its not seeing the floppy drive in the floppy drive cable in correctly
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> make sure none of the pins are bent 
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>   From: dawtechie 
>   To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 8:02 PM
>   Subject: [emax] Re: Gotek floppy emulator for Emax 1
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>   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!
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>   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.
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>   Ted (or anyone else), would you like me to look for anything for you? Just let me know.
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>   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.
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>   Thanks! Jeff
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>   --- 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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>   > 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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