Emax

I have some unexpected but good news. I was inside the EMAX looking at the hard drive and going over what I needed to do when I noticed that the hard drive still had power. I followed the 3-wire power connector back to a connector on the power board. I believe that this connector was loose or had some gunk in there because when I disconnected it and cleaned it out, the hard drive started working again. What a great sound, (like a mini garbage truck.) Thanks for all of the pointers. I believe I will look into that PCD 50b / slim floppy and use that as a replacement when the hard drive goes. 

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, Ted Summers <djtbs1@...> wrote:
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> Internal SCSI Zips which can be set to ID 0 are somewhat hard to come by.
> A Zip drive isn't something I would recommend buying used.... there is the
> infamous click of death....
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> If you get one of the blue external zips, no it won't boot from it. Those
> only have ID 5 and 6 as options (with a switch on the back)
> Then you have to boot from floppy every time.
> Which is exactly why people are buying flash media drives and putting it in
> with a slim floppy.
> Floppy is there if you need it, but media drive has no moving parts to go
> bad...and can be set to ID 0.
> And slim floppy are readily available and cheap.
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> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 6:58 AM, quailquillz <astrong2000@...> wrote:
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> > Thats kind of a bummer. So it wont boot from the zip even if I take out
> > the HD and put the zip in its place? Do I boot from the floppy?
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> > --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, Ted Summers <djtbs1@> wrote:
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> > > Please note that most external Zip drives cannot be set to ID0,
> > therefore the Emax won't boot from it.
> > >
> > > -T
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> > > On Jun 10, 2013, at 3:11 PM, Ted Summers wrote:
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> > > I wouldn't leave the old HD in there. I would use the termination on the
> > new device to terminate the bus. Zip's will auto terminate.
> > >
> > > -T
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> > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 2:38 PM, quailquillz <astrong2000@> wrote:
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> > > Awesome! Thank you very much. I didn't have any luck finding an IDC 50
> > to DB25 but I found an IDC 26 pin to DB25. I figure I can leave the dead
> > hard drive in there and it will properly terminate the scsi line. So do I
> > just plug it in, format a zip disk and it will work? Or do I have to do
> > anything else to the board or the zip drive. Thanks.
> > >
> > > --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, Ted Summers <djtbs1@> wrote:
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> > > >
> > > > Is the 26 pin IDC a scsi port
> > > > for an external drive?
> > > >
> > > > Yes
> > > >
> > > > or should I daisy chain off the dead hard drive or
> > > > the floppy disc?
> > > >
> > > > This is better as it would properly terminate the SCSI chain to do it
> > this way (I don't know what EMU was thinking when they added the port this
> > way- it's not SCSI best practice).
> > > >
> > > > You can get a 50pin to DB 25 SCSI converter on ebay.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Or install a PCD-50b / 60b in the floppy slot with a slim floppy.
> > > > See my site: djtbs1.wordpress.com
> > > >
> > > > -T
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