Emax

Hi all,

I have a turbo Emulator IIIxp where I managed to change the hard 
drive from 105MB to a 9.1GB Compaq.  It formatted OK to 8860MB much 
to my surprise.

Question 1:
Despite copying the software to it, it won't boot from the drive, I 
have to use the floppy drive or the old 105MB drive to boot from.  I 
had to add termination resisters internally on the Emu motherboard to 
get it to be recognised when using it as a single drive. Anyone know 
why it won't boot?

Question 2:
Copying a CD of samples to the drive stopped at about 94% free space 
on the new drive.  This equates to about 500MB so is there a 540MB 
limit to drive size.  Remember it formatted to nearly 9GB and the 
disk status says it is 94% free but copying any more data results in 
a disk full error message.  Can anyone confirm the drive limit?  I 
know Emax IIs max out at 500MB.

Question 3:
I can control the filters/EGs/LFOs etc on both my Emax SE and Emax II 
from my Peavey PC1600 controller using sysex.  Can this be done on 
the EIIIxp.  The manual says that Sysex is "Yet To Be Implement".  
Was it ever?  I have the last V2.10 software.  I believe the ESI-32 
range onwards dropped sysex control of these parameters.

Question 4:
If it can be controlled by sysex what is its Device ID?

Many thanks in advance for your insightful answers.

Best regards

Chris

Try http://www.emulatorarchive.com. I don't know if anyone here is going to be able to 
help you. 

From what I've read it should be able to format up to a 2GB drive. But, that's with a ? 
There aren't any drives over 1.7GB listed on the compatibility chart. There is no mention 
of SYSEX ever being added. It mentions that it is preferable to use slower spinning hard 
drives 5400 rpm. I know the Emax II can not boot from drives that take too long to "spin 
up" (I've had issues with Maxtor drives) but a solution to that is to tell it to boot from an 
unused SCSI ID # and when that fails it will cycle through the IDs until it finds a bootable 
device, by which time the hard drive should be ready.

On 11 Feb 2004 at 15:48, Chris Strellis spoke unto me:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have a turbo Emulator IIIxp where I managed to change the hard drive
> from 105MB to a 9.1GB Compaq.  It formatted OK to 8860MB much to my
> surprise.
> 
> Question 1:
> Despite copying the software to it, it won't boot from the drive, I
> have to use the floppy drive or the old 105MB drive to boot from.  I
> had to add termination resisters internally on the Emu motherboard to
> get it to be recognised when using it as a single drive. Anyone know
> why it won't boot?
> 
> Question 2:
> Copying a CD of samples to the drive stopped at about 94% free space
> on the new drive.  This equates to about 500MB so is there a 540MB
> limit to drive size.  Remember it formatted to nearly 9GB and the disk
> status says it is 94% free but copying any more data results in a disk
> full error message.  Can anyone confirm the drive limit?  I know Emax
> IIs max out at 500MB.
> 
> Question 3:
> I can control the filters/EGs/LFOs etc on both my Emax SE and Emax II
> from my Peavey PC1600 controller using sysex.  Can this be done on the
> EIIIxp.  The manual says that Sysex is "Yet To Be Implement".  Was it
> ever?  I have the last V2.10 software.  I believe the ESI-32 range
> onwards dropped sysex control of these parameters.
> 
> Question 4:
> If it can be controlled by sysex what is its Device ID?
> 
> Many thanks in advance for your insightful answers.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Emax and Emax II User's Group Website
> 
> http://www.silveriafamily.com 
> Yahoo! Groups Links
> 
> 
> 



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Hi,
1) Boot failure is usually due to the hard disk being incompatible, you are
lucky it formatted. I'd suggest using a 1GB drive from the list on the web
site, or a 1GB Jaz drive.
2) The EIIIXP can't use that much space, it will be able to cope with 1 - 2
GB drives. EOS has similar problems with large drives, its down to the
rather limited E-mu disk formatting process (which dates back to the Emax).
They weren't expecting drive sizes to increase so much !
3) The EIIIXP does have some SysEx, as the Mac EIIIX Remote Control software
can control some parameters. However EIIIXP/EIII SysEx is undocumented. Just
get the Mac software from our web site and look at the MIDI SysEx streams.
Better still use the software....it has some cool library features.
4) As 3)
Regards
rob
www.emulatorarchive.com