Emax

Hi all,
    I'm a new Emax II user. I bougth it without hard drive with just 
one diskette containing its OS. Now I have a 80MB HD taken out from 
an old Mac and I am building my first sound bank :)

    My problem is with the won't mount from the HD. It's been able to 
do it 2 or 3 times but since I've open up the box to place the HD 
definitively, it always looks on the floppy.
    I've tried reformatting the HD, reinstalling the OS and resetting 
the SCSI boot ID correctly but without any success.

    I boot with the floopy and I can still use the machine but...

    Thanks for any help.

Frank

On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 03:40, frankiegoesemax wrote:
> Hi all,
>     I'm a new Emax II user. I bougth it without hard drive with just 
> one diskette containing its OS. Now I have a 80MB HD taken out from 
> an old Mac and I am building my first sound bank :)
> 
>     My problem is with the won't mount from the HD. It's been able to 
> do it 2 or 3 times but since I've open up the box to place the HD 
> definitively, it always looks on the floppy.
>     I've tried reformatting the HD, reinstalling the OS and resetting 
> the SCSI boot ID correctly but without any success.
> 
>     I boot with the floopy and I can still use the machine but...
> 
>     Thanks for any help.
> 
> Frank

Have you changed the SCSI id of the drive?  I found, with a 120M drive
taken out of an old Mac IIfx, that I needed to pick the id carefully
because when the Emax starts scanning the SCSI chain, the drive has not
yet spun up and is not ready.  So what happens is it times out waiting
for the drive, then scans through until it finds one.   Try setting the
drive to SCSI id 6 and letting it wait for a while.

Failing that, the SCSI cable may be faulty, or wrongly fitted.  And
don't forget - the PSU in the Emax isn't the greatest and may not be
able to supply as much power as a big, old SCSI drive needs.


HTH
  Gordon