Emax

scsi to ide adapters have a delay this sometimes causes a problem

on the asr10 it searches for scsi and it asks for floppy

then goes to ask floppy again then boots saying loading software

its must be something todo with the scsi to ide then the ide to cf interface 
a few seconds lag

we have new hot swap cf drives 2 slots master slave

we just use the cf slot as master

we use the drive with our mpc60/3000 kits

and i have confirmed it works with the

a3000/4000/5000 ex5/r

kurzweil k2000/2500/2600

asr10 eps16+

s1000/3000/3200/3000xl
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Summers" <djtbs1@...>
To: <emax@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 12:57 AM
Subject: Re: [emax] Emax II failing to boot from SCSI device


OK- so I came home and did a little testing.

I have an IDE to PC Card drive in my Emax 2.
I have the ACARD 7720U to connect it to the SCSI.

Now, what I find is this-

I have 2 different PC-Card to SD card adapters.
a Generic 6-in-1 and an edup MCR-5A.

Now- with a known good / formatted flash (which I checked a couple of wks 
ago when I installed the OLED display).

The 6 in 1 adapter it doesn't see it and fails to boot.
Then it goes searching.
So I boot from floppy and set the ID.
Remove floppy and try and boot from it again\ufffd.
same - still searches\ufffd..

So, the MCR-5A I like better (using in my Emax 1 usually).
I take that and put in my 512MB SD
It still requires boot from floppy.
So I set ID1

Then I power off and this time it does "Checking SCSI ?" then directly boots 
from it.

This generic works OK in my Emax 1, but did not work in the Emax 2- don't 
know if it is because of the SCSI bridge I have in Emax2 or Emax2 is just 
picky\ufffd. or
not all PC Card adapters are the same and fully compatible.

But it seems like if Emax 2 doesn't find your SCSI one time, then even if 
the menu shows the ID it doesn't like it.
It may be that a flag gets set in the EPROM that the drive ID may be set, 
but it wasn't really valid for boot last time.
On successful boot it is possible that (if it sets that), that the bit is 
unset (or vice versa)
It seems like once you boot from it successfully after setting ID, then the 
searching goes away\ufffd.

Anyways- that is the behavior I saw\ufffd.


On Dec 18, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Francis Cote wrote:

Sounds risky.
On 2012-12-18 7:09 PM, "Ted Summers" <djtbs1@...> wrote:

> **
>
>
> I don't believe they are socketed. you have to desolder the EEPROM and 
> then
> you could copy the content.
> Otherwise, you lose the info that you have how much memory....that is my
> understanding.
>
> Someone had a file for the max memory, but I never got that to work - 
> maybe
> I did something wrong....
>
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Francis Cote <francis.cote@...
>> wrote:
>
>> Yes please Ted?
>> Isn't it just a mater or copying the content to another eeprom chip?
>> On 2012-12-18 6:48 PM, "Simon Forsyth" <chevytravelleruk@...>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> **
>>>
>>>
>>> Happily.. any thoughts Ted?..
>>>
>>> S.
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: jammie <jammie.emma@...>
>>> To: emax@yahoogroups.com
>>> Sent: Tuesday, 18 December 2012, 19:21
>>> Subject: Re: [emax] Emax II failing to boot from SCSI device
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ask ted but i thought it would only boot from scsi id 1
>>>
>>> never owned an emax 2 as i had an EIII
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Francis Cote" <francis.cote@...>
>>> To: <emax@yahoogroups.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 6:14 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [emax] Emax II failing to boot from SCSI device
>>>
>>>> I have the same annoying issue. Is this EEPROM replaceable?
>>>> On 2012-12-18 12:10 PM, "Simon" <chevytravelleruk@...> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> **
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Guys.. I posted this up a while ago, but am looking for a
> solution
>>>>> here
>>>>>
>>>>> The Emax boots from floppy, but when I try to assign it to boot from
>> an
>>>>> internal SCSI drive (ID7) it says it saves the setting but still
>>> searches
>>>>> for the floppy on bootup.
>>>>>
>>>>> The settings appear to be saved as it is still set to ID 7 when you
> go
>>>>> back into boot ID settings but the Emax still insists on a floppy
>> being
>>>>> inserted to boot
>>>>> The Emax should be able to boot from any ID right?..
>>>>>
>>>>> Is this likely a failing of the EEPROM at IC24?..
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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