Emax

I have an Emax II but,

Have you checked that the operating system is copied on the harddrive?
Emax setting acknowleged it must boot from HD ID...?

With and Emax II I know that sometimes the HD ID chain of 0 must be placed higher (example id 7) in order to make it bootable. The HD ready signal can sometimes be slower than the access time of the Emax II in order to find it on "time". Could this also count for an Emax I?

Another possibility is to remove gently the scanner cpu en reseat it in firmly again.

Hopes this will help you.

Kind regards,
Frank

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "esynthesist" <esynthesist@...> wrote:
>
> The problem below has probably been posted here before, but the 
> search engine on the yahoo groups seems not to scan older messages 
> anymore, so I thought I'm "allowed" give it another try:
> 
> I just connected a hard disk to my Emax Plus Rack. Except for the 
> floppy drive, no other hard drive is connected to the Emax. The SCSI 
> ID of the HD is set to 0.
> The problem is: the Emax only wants to boot from the floppy. Once 
> this is done, it recognizes the HD on SCSI ID O and I can load/unload 
> banks from it. The HD also contains the Plus operating system: it has 
> been formatted by the Emax and I performed an additional "copy 
> software" just to be sure...
> 
> Now I read about this "cheat" of the floppy connector on the 
> motherboard (jumper between pins 25 and 26).
> But that's mainly used for replacing the floppy drive by an internal 
> ZIP drive and making sure that the Emax still thinks a floppy drive 
> is connected. That's not what I want.
> 
> Bottom line: I don't understand this boot issue with the Emax. In the 
> original documentation of Emu, it seemed perfectly possible to have 
> an Emax with both an internal HD and a floppy drive. When booting, 
> the Emax should first check the floppy drive; if no floppy disk is 
> found, the Emax should boot from the HD on SCSI ID 0.
> It doesn't do that on mine, it doesn't even check the SCSI chain, it 
> immediately asks to insert a disk.
> 
> So what do you think I'm doing wrong ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> ///E-Synthesist
>