Emax

I have successfully used TEAC, Mitsumi, and SONY floppy drives to write Emax disks.
My PC mobo is an MSI with Intel Pentium 4 2.66 Ghz
But it shouldn't be the motherboard itself, honestly because I have also used a mobo with a Via CPU (the chipset maker, not even AMD!!!) and the DOS programs worked fine and wrote the Emax disks....
now whether that combo would have worked with EMXP I couldn't know....

Did you try the dos route I suggested before?
format the DSDD in Emax

using dos 6.22 exe create that 1.44MB floppy
Verify computer boots to dos

go back to windows and remove extra dos files so there is enough space (remove like deltree, attrib,etc leaving only the files I specified in that other mail).
and put the files (EMX, EMAXUTIL, PLUS OS - only the unzipped ones not the zips) there on drive A: on HD floppy disk.

now boot off the dos disk again and run EMX and using the menu choose to write the OS file to the DSDD disk.

in this way you have taken OMNIFLOP and Windows out of the picture- pure dos and the EMX and EMAXUTIL are doing raw writes to the disk.... now if THAT doesn't work it basically confirms the fdd hardware incompatibility / problem.

-Ted

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:28 AM, jammie <jammie.emma@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

it means that your emax is formating wrong or has mis alligned heads

i had this with another customer who brought a keyboard from me with a new slim floppy

and he had another emax with an old floppy the new floppy could not read the os or sample disks

and the old floppy in his other machine could not read the new floppy disks from the new floppy on the other machine

also are you using dsdd or hddd floppy disks

----- Original Message -----

From: windrumscoggin@...

To: emax@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 5:59 PM

Subject: [emax] EMXP just NOT working

Error code 89!

'The capacity of the disk in drive A is not supported by Emax samplers!

Oh

Really!?, I just formatted the disk on my Emax!

Hi

I am not sure my problem is with the FD disks I am using or with WinXP or simply a bad FDD issue (really, tried four different floppy disk drives) or an EMXP motherboard incompatibility but

It just ain't working..not with Floppy disks, my internal ZIP disk, or Flash cards either.

In using FD's marked HD on the upper right of the disk I get all kinds of errors.

DSDD disks just don't work either. EMXP can't see em, even if they were previously formatted in my Emax I HD running SE rev1.1

I also installed and tried 4 different floppies drives on two different winXP machines and keep getting errors in EMXP even though the Emax HD I own formats them just fine as does OmniFlop (with Omniflop drivers installed, of course).

For example I will format the floppy disk in OmniFlop and install an OS from the usergroup on the disk.

All goes well.

I then open EMXP

Click

1) Manage Emax images

7) Manage Emax floppy disks

Enter the drive letter as 'A'

3) Manage OS on floppy disk

(Since OmniFlop just