Emax

if its making clicks then your zip drive has the click of death 

what happens is it uses pressure to spin the zip disk when this presure is weakend the spindal spins but the disk does not and the spindal does the click as it engages and disengages from the disk spinning and slipping time to get a new zip disk as there is no cure for it

if they used a proper key like a triangle or a square then the spindale could not slip

in latermodels the plus range they changed the mechanism which prevented this

go scsi cf card and you will have no problems like this as there are no moving parts

but saying this the esi4000 is a 3rd generation EIIIX and not an emax which is 6 generations sampler before itand has nothing in common

i think we need to start to change this forum to emu samplers in general as more questions are being rlated to newer versions of emu samplers
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: tl200024 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 2:15 AM
  Subject: [emax] ESI 4000 Formatting Zip Problems


    
  Hello. I have been having major problems trying to format zip disks for the ESI 4000. I ordered 3 blank zip disks, and I tried formatting, and they all did not work and are now useless. I read that I needed to press an 8, on the formatting screen, so maybe that was why. I ordered an IBM compatible blank zip disk, and tried to format the disk. I pressed 8 on the formatting screen, it made a bunch of clicks, and eventually said formatting error. I was wondering if you know if the zip disks need to be in a certain preformat in order to format them on the esi 4000. Also, I know the drive is fine, because I am able to import the Alan Wilder sounds into the machine. I just want to be able to save my work in the future. Thank you very much for your help.



  

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