Re: [emax] SE upgrade disk problem
2007-10-18 by ted Summers
Did you make sure you are using a 720K disk to write the image to? They are 1.44MB floppy, but emax only reads / writes 720. So it MUST have the hole covered
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Re: [emax] Emax Compact Flash
2007-10-18 by ted Summers
Dave- I was going to do this last week, but have other home construction things going on, so it is taking a back seat. But I anxiously await your findings.
Re: [emax] Emax Compact Flash
2007-10-17 by Dave Sotnick
The SCSI-IDE bridge I ordered (ACARD AEC7720U) includes a jumper which provides SCSI bus termination. I just hope the SCSI-IDE bridge recognizes the CF-IDE
Re: [emax] Emax Compact Flash
2007-10-17 by s*
Hi Dave, That sounds great. I wonder if you will run into any SCSI termination issues? From what I understand the SCSI needs to be terminated at the end of
Re: external ZIP 100 problem
2007-10-17 by mks50
thanks a lot dude , but I only have my old HD which died years ago. do you think it will work with it ?
SE upgrade disk problem
2007-10-17 by mks50
hi folks , i m still stuck after booting with the bootdisk 6.22 provided in the files section and using a fat16 formatted 1.44 disk to contain the image and
Re: [emax] Emax Compact Flash
2007-10-17 by Dave Sotnick
Hi Ted, Not sure if you have had the time to try this yet, but I just ordered the items you suggested below and will be trying it out next week when the parts
Re: [emax] Re: Noizey emax!
2007-10-16 by mr julian
so it s something that has changed recently? do you have older recordings to compare it to? in that case, something is broken, so take it to a tech and get it
Re: [emax] Re: external ZIP 100 problem
2007-10-16 by Dave Sotnick
Sorry, I forgot about this key piece of information: I think the Plus OS expects to see a device at ID 0. Do you have a SCSI drive you can put on the chain at
Re: external ZIP 100 problem
2007-10-16 by mks50
this is exactly how i m proceeding but when i m pressing 5 or 6 it doesn t seems to happen anything scsi id 0 doesn t change and it always comes to
Re: [emax] external ZIP 100 problem
2007-10-16 by Dave Sotnick
You can format the zip but you won t be able to boot to it, since the Emax I only boots to SCSI ID# 0, and as you pointed out the external zip has only IDs 5
Re: [emax] external ZIP 100 problem
2007-10-16 by Lyn Oakey
Yes, you must terminate the Zip. Lyn ... From: mks50 To: emax@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 6:45 PM Subject: [emax] external ZIP 100 problem
external ZIP 100 problem
2007-10-16 by mks50
hi everybody , i m running the PLUS O.S and i can t format the ZIP since it doesn t seem to be detected . must I active the termination behind the zip drive
Re: Noizey emax!
2007-10-16 by sam_goose_266
Yes thanks mike. The emax is a fine sounding machine. I actually noticed it the other day when mixing a track. The drums sounded dull. After time spent
Re: [emax] Noizey emax!
2007-10-16 by Mike Wolak
Recently I noticed noise while recording/monitoring on the main outputs on my EMAX. If your not doing it already , try assigning the program to one of the
Noizey emax!
2007-10-16 by sam_goose_266
Hello I have been using my emax for about a year now. Not ver often. Anyway I recently have found some time to record tunes again. After recording my emax
Re: [emax] Floppy Drives for Emax I SE
2007-10-15 by ted Summers
If you are technically inclined, you should be able to make most standard floppies work. I was able to. The drive just needs to be able to be made a Drive 0
Floppy Drives for Emax I SE
2007-10-15 by tnb09061974
Hello, I have a Emax I SE with a faulty disk drive. The lamp of the floppy drive shines but the drive doesn t work any more. In the display I can read the
Re: my quest to replace hd/floppy with internal pcmcia
2007-10-15 by chrisebert05
Thanks for the reply -- I ve started ordering parts, so it s in process. Haven t seen many readers so far: Intermart seems to have been bought by SCM, so I m
Re: [emax] ATX PSU for EMAX
2007-10-13 by Alan Currall
Dave, Thank you so much. That is so clear and thorough. You ve filled in all the gaps left by the other descriptions of using an ATX on this message board. I
Re: [emax] ATX PSU for EMAX
2007-10-13 by Dave Sotnick
I just got out my multimeter and figured out the voltages of the existing wiring from my working Emax I power supply. It is as follows: Green: Ground/Earth
Re: my quest to replace hd/floppy with internal pcmcia
2007-10-11 by pauzetanker
i m in san diego, and i actually go to the swap meets down here quite often (it was actually my second stop after ebay in trying to score a reader for
ATX PSU for EMAX
2007-10-10 by alancurrall
I ve got an atx power supply waiting to go into my Emax 1 SE Rack, since the original PSU went bang. I know there are helpful Emax users out there who ve
Re: [emax] Re: my quest to replace hd/floppy with internal pcmcia
2007-10-09 by ted Summers
Since you live in SoCal- do you ever go to the computer swap meets down there? I went to the one in Pomona a couple of times, and saw a wide variety of stuff
Re: [emax] Re: Repairs and Upgrades
2007-10-09 by ted Summers
Well- I have been seeing the LCD s pretty regularly on ebay for about $23 + shipping. I paid $15 for mine, but special ordered and it took 3 months. So if you
Re: my quest to replace hd/floppy with internal pcmcia
2007-10-08 by pauzetanker
hi all... glad that my story will benefit the group! Chris, your sequence is pretty much correct. i ll just restate everything that i did here, and feel free
Re: Repairs and Upgrades
2007-10-08 by E. L.
Well, the HD has been dead for a long time, and the LCD is intermitant at best and when it does show me somthing, half the time, it s gibberish. Eddy ... Emax
Re: [emax] Re: HD capacity
2007-10-07 by Tristan Upton
Are the two unknown bytes in the format structure per bank/file or per disk? I guess they could be some kind of checksum. I have only ever had a 100MB Zip
Emax Compact Flash
2007-10-07 by ted Summers
I think many of us would like this option and so I am seriously thinking about taking a plunge here. Proposed Idea: Get a SCSI to IDE converter ($40 on ebay) -
Re: HD capacity
2007-10-07 by esynthesist
I don t know the maximum size, the biggest one I ve seen so far is 632 MB (CDROM), but that s because I don t have any HD here of more than 510 MB, so I can t
Re: HD capacity
2007-10-06 by Tristan Upton
Interesting, I was not aware of that. So, do you know what maximum capacity the Emax II can physically format a hard disk to? Is it possible to use EMXP to
Re: HD capacity
2007-10-06 by esynthesist
EmaxII can certainly access more than 540 MB of hard disk space. In fact the EMAX-II file access table of harddisks and CDs can handle almost any size. Of
Re: [emax] HD capacity
2007-10-06 by Tristan Upton
Hi John, Have you managed to actually fill the drive though? I remember reading some time back that although the Emax II could save 100 banks, with up to 8MB
HELP !
2007-10-06 by mks50
hi i m fresh new to the group and i can t find the instructions for making an SE upgrade disk with EMAXUTIL (it says it can t read the SEUP .EM1 file)as it
HD capacity
2007-10-06 by johnbrit2002
Thanks Tristan. The flash drive is a great idea and one I hadn t thought of. As I said, I have a 700Mb HD in my Emax II now and it is perfectly happy so 540
Re: Emax I SE Power Supply gone kaput!
2007-10-06 by alancurrall
Hiya Davide, Any chance of you posting those photographs yet? I m dying to get this thing working again, but I just don t have the nerve (or maybe that s
Re: [emax] Re: my quest to replace hd/floppy with internal pcmcia
2007-10-05 by ted Summers
I am interested in doing this as well. I was looking potentially at any SCSI reader on ebay. But then I saw, not all are writers, so be careful when
Re: [emax] HD capacity
2007-10-05 by Tristan Upton
Hi John, I believe the maxiumu HD size is around 540MB on the Emax II. You might want to look into replacing the hard disk with a SCSI flash drive. A 512MB
HD capacity
2007-10-05 by johnbrit2002
Hi - anyone know what the largest hard drive an Emax II can access? I tried putting in a 4Gb drive and it aborted the format after about ten minutes. Put in a
Re: my quest to replace hd/floppy with internal pcmcia
2007-10-05 by chrisebert05
Hi, Thanks for posting your story, it s quite inspirational! I have an emax HD SE rack unit that I want to modify as you have done and I had a few questions.
Re: [emax] Repairs and Upgrades
2007-10-05 by ted Summers
So- first off we need to know what is wrong..... Is it the floppy? HD not working, etc? Thx, Ted ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Repairs and Upgrades
2007-10-04 by E. L.
Hi Everyone. I m excited to be a part of this group. I bought my Emax HD SE in 1989. I would like to use it again, but it has myriad problems now. I ve read
Re: EMAX I - how to make it respond to multiple MIDI channels?
2007-10-01 by Pete
It is indeed Supermode that you use to access multiple MIDI channels. Don t feel bad about forgetting; I ve just started making music again with my Emax II
Re: [emax] EMAX I - how to make it respond to multiple MIDI channels?
2007-09-30 by Brooks Mosher
yes, you have go into supermode and assign presets to midi channels 1-16. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
EMAX I - how to make it respond to multiple MIDI channels?
2007-09-30 by Karl M
It s been so long since I seriously used my EMAX I rack unit I forgot how to set it up to respond to multiple MIDI channels from my sequencer. The EMAX is in
Re: SUCCESS!!!
2007-09-27 by pauzetanker
it boots up very quickly versus the stock config. you still see the diagnostics screen for the same amount of time, but loading the OS takes less than a
Re: SUCCESS!!!
2007-09-27 by Pete
Oh wow. That is incredibly cool; congrats on getting it to work! So how quickly does it boot up from the card? ... loaded.
SUCCESS!!!
2007-09-26 by pauzetanker
well it s finally been accomplished! my emax is now floppy and hdd free. funny story -- if you ve been following my journey, i ve been trying to figure out how
EMX FILE TRANSFER 101 the basics
2007-09-25 by pastorcurfew
Here is the link. Thanks everyone who contributed without knowing. http://www.slopdellica.com/emax2/EMX.htm Hope this helps answer alot of questions.
RE: [emax] Emax I and Internal ZIP Drive
2007-09-21 by Jonathon Stevens
does this require the HD version or scsi? I have an SE version of the keyboard no scsi, but would be really interested in doing this if It s possible. To: