Dear John,
The floppy does definitely power up. The red light is constantly
on. But it has been moved (my Emax II arrived from Germany). So I
will try to open it, double check the ribbon and come back to you if
the problem is still there... Otherwise, maybe I should consider
purchasing one of these Emax hard disks full of sounds?...
Take care,
David.
--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "John Silveria" <emaxjs@s...> wrote:
> If you have a disk in the floppy on power-up it should boot from
that regardless to if you
> have it set to boot from any other SCSI ID#. Yes, it does store
the boot ID even after
> power off, but it should be looking at the floppy first and
foremost, the fact that it doesn't
> see the floppy drive is the first thing I would try to solve by
reseating the ribbon
> connector. Can you tell if the floppy is powering up at all?
>
> Has it been moved lately? Perhaps something came loose.
>
> On 24 Oct 2003 at 6:22, davidhadzis spoke unto me:
>
> > Dear John,
> >
> > Many thanks for your interest in my problem! It is powering up,
and
> > it looks for the SCSI 1 channel for a while. Then it looks for
all
> > other channels, except the floppy where the system disk is
inserted!
> > It had been previously set on "Boot from SCSI 1", and I'm afraid
that
> > it has saved this information in a chip somewhere...
> >
> > Any idea?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > David.
> > --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "John Silveria" <emaxjs@s...>
wrote: >
> > when you say "won't start" what exactly do you mean. Is it
powering
> > up? Is it looking at > the floppy but it keeps spinning? Is it
> > powering up but locking up with some of the panel > lights on? >
> The
> > more information you can give the easier it will be to help. > >
On 23
> > Oct 2003 at 19:34, davidhadzis spoke unto me: > > > Dear All, >
> > >
> > I am a brand new Emax II owner, realizing a 10 year dream... BUT
while
> > > > I was formatting the hard disk to erase everything that the
> > previous > > owner had left on it, the lights went out... > > >
> The
> > Emax II was set to boot on SCSI 1... And now, no matter if I > >
> > insert the system floppy disk, the Emax II won't start. > > > >
Would
> > anyone be good enought to help me on this? > > > > Also, I have
an
> > Apple CD-150 CD drive, but it does not seem to > > work. Is it
> > supposed to work with the Emax II or should I try Ebay > > for
another
> > drive? > > **************************John Silveria
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