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Hi,

I have an Emax II that works perfectly for about half an hour then decides 
to give up the ghost.  The display first reads disk error and then says 
'please insert disk!' even thought the disk has not been removed.  Can 
anybody help explain as to why this happens and/or provide a solution to the 
problem?

Cheers and Regards

Anth.
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My guess would be a bad disk drive. Do you have an HD or removable 
media drive you can try with it to see if it's just a disk drive 
issue?

--- In emax@egroups.com, "anthony wilson" <whoppachops@h...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an Emax II that works perfectly for about half an hour then 
decides 
> to give up the ghost.  The display first reads disk error and then 
says 
> 'please insert disk!' even thought the disk has not been removed.  
Can 
> anybody help explain as to why this happens and/or provide a 
solution to the 
> problem?

My guess is that the problem is due to a cracked circuit board or loose wire
somewhere. Different materials expand at different rates when heated, so when
your Emax gets to a certain temperature the failure occurs.

Bob

anthony wilson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have an Emax II that works perfectly for about half an hour then decides
> to give up the ghost.  The display first reads disk error and then says
> 'please insert disk!' even thought the disk has not been removed.  Can
> anybody help explain as to why this happens and/or provide a solution to the
> problem?
>
> Cheers and Regards
>
> Anth.
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>From: "John Silveria" <emaxjs@...>
>Reply-To: emax@egroups.com
>To: emax@egroups.com
>Subject: [emax] Re: emaxII breakdown
>Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 15:55:20 -0000
>
>My guess would be a bad disk drive. Do you have an HD or removable
>media drive you can try with it to see if it's just a disk drive
>issue?
>
>--- In emax@egroups.com, "anthony wilson" <whoppachops@h...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have an Emax II that works perfectly for about half an hour then
>decides
> > to give up the ghost.  The display first reads disk error and then
>says
> > 'please insert disk!' even thought the disk has not been removed.
>Can
> > anybody help explain as to why this happens and/or provide a
>solution to the
> > problem?
>
>
cheers for the prompt response, i do have a HD drive but i am pretty sure it 
is a fault with the floppy drive.  The guy at Audio Engineering in 
Manchester said it could be that the springs in the drive are out of line 
(!!??) whatever that means, he said it may cost \ufffd100-\ufffd150 to fix, is this 
right?

Cheers again

Anth
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> cheers for the prompt response, i do have a HD drive but i am pretty sure
> it is a fault with the floppy drive.  The guy at Audio Engineering in
> Manchester said it could be that the springs in the drive are out of line
> (!!??) whatever that means, he said it may cost £100-£150 to fix, is this
> right?

Not if my conversion is right... wouldn't that be between $125 and $325 
US? In a worse case scenario you can replace the drive with a Double 
Density Mac Classic compatible drive from any store that carries old 
Mac parts. Those are cheap.


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It's a Double density double sided (DD DS) floppy drive. There has been some
debate about if they are Mac or PC, SCSI, or other. I''ve never opened mine up.
I would open the keyboard up and get a friend who knows computers to look at the
floppy.
Be sure not to touch electronics if you can help it, get a grounding wrist strap
and read up on anti-static procedures so you don't zap a vital component.
You may be able to use a modern High Density (HD DS)  PC floppy drive or
scavenge a DD DS out of an old Mac or Atari ST  depending on what you find.
I still think it's heat related in regards to a circuit board. It may be the
board on the floppy drive itself, or the board that talks to the floppy drive
and/or hard drive. I don't see why a spring would go bad after 1/2 hour. If a
spring is bad, it probably stays bad, and would be a symptom such as not being
able to eject the floppy disk.
100 to 150 seems like a lot of money, most of it is probably labor. I would want
a guaranteed diagnostic before I committed that much money. It would be a shame
if you replaced the floppy drive for that much money and it still happened.

Bob


anthony wilson wrote:

> >From: "John Silveria" <emaxjs@...>
> >Reply-To: emax@egroups.com
> >To: emax@egroups.com
> >Subject: [emax] Re: emaxII breakdown
> >Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 15:55:20 -0000
> >
> >My guess would be a bad disk drive. Do you have an HD or removable
> >media drive you can try with it to see if it's just a disk drive
> >issue?
> >
> >--- In emax@egroups.com, "anthony wilson" <whoppachops@h...> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have an Emax II that works perfectly for about half an hour then
> >decides
> > > to give up the ghost.  The display first reads disk error and then
> >says
> > > 'please insert disk!' even thought the disk has not been removed.
> >Can
> > > anybody help explain as to why this happens and/or provide a
> >solution to the
> > > problem?
> >
> >
> cheers for the prompt response, i do have a HD drive but i am pretty sure it
> is a fault with the floppy drive.  The guy at Audio Engineering in
> Manchester said it could be that the springs in the drive are out of line
> (!!??) whatever that means, he said it may cost \ufffd100-\ufffd150 to fix, is this
> right?
>
> Cheers again
>
> Anth
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BTW...are you sure your disks are in good shape? Maybe you should try a fresh
copy of your sound bank on some new disks. Could be the surface on the old disks
are no longer retaining a good magnetic field. But that would only give you an
error when trying to read a disk.

Bob

anthony wilson wrote:

> >From: "John Silveria" <emaxjs@...>
> >Reply-To: emax@egroups.com
> >To: emax@egroups.com
> >Subject: [emax] Re: emaxII breakdown
> >Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 15:55:20 -0000
> >
> >My guess would be a bad disk drive. Do you have an HD or removable
> >media drive you can try with it to see if it's just a disk drive
> >issue?
> >
> >--- In emax@egroups.com, "anthony wilson" <whoppachops@h...> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have an Emax II that works perfectly for about half an hour then
> >decides
> > > to give up the ghost.  The display first reads disk error and then
> >says
> > > 'please insert disk!' even thought the disk has not been removed.
> >Can
> > > anybody help explain as to why this happens and/or provide a
> >solution to the
> > > problem?
> >
> >
> cheers for the prompt response, i do have a HD drive but i am pretty sure it
> is a fault with the floppy drive.  The guy at Audio Engineering in
> Manchester said it could be that the springs in the drive are out of line
> (!!??) whatever that means, he said it may cost \ufffd100-\ufffd150 to fix, is this
> right?
>
> Cheers again
>
> Anth
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