Emax

I tried hooking up an external zip 100 to it and put in a disk and
tried to reformat it. It seemed to work but took about 45 minutes...i
figured it froze.
I cant seem to boot or copy the software to the external drive. as
soon as i take the floppy out it doesn't work anymore..thus telling me
that the actual zip drive did not get formatted or whatnaut.
i suppose i'll keep trying with both the syquest ez 135 drive and the
zip 100.

Do you have OS SE HD 1.1? The 1.0 doesn't support external if I  
recall, so have to get version 1.1 HD to work with the zip drive....

just a thought.....

Ted
On Jul 12, 2007, at 3:02 PM, asrvegas wrote:

> I tried hooking up an external zip 100 to it and put in a disk and
> tried to reformat it. It seemed to work but took about 45 minutes...i
> figured it froze.
> I cant seem to boot or copy the software to the external drive. as
> soon as i take the floppy out it doesn't work anymore..thus telling me
> that the actual zip drive did not get formatted or whatnaut.
> i suppose i'll keep trying with both the syquest ez 135 drive and the
> zip 100.
>
>
> 



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Where did it go wrong exactly ?
Did the format end "properly" ?
What did you do after formatting the ZIP disk ? Did you use the Copy 
Software menu option (in Special menu) ? If so make sure that the 
floppy with the OS is still in the drive.
(You can also copy the OS (version 2.14) to your formatted ZIP disk 
with EMXP but you'll need a WinXP PC & ZIP drive connected to it)

After copying the OS to the ZIP disk, make sure to set the SCSI boot ID 
to a value different from 0 ! (see Special function 6). If not, the 
EMAX-II will keep asking for a floppy to boot, even if a bootable HD or 
ZIP disk is connected to the EMAX-II !

Hope this helps...

///E-Synthesist
--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "asrvegas" <asrvegas@...> wrote:

>
> I tried hooking up an external zip 100 to it and put in a disk and
> tried to reformat it. It seemed to work but took about 45 minutes...i
> figured it froze.
> I cant seem to boot or copy the software to the external drive. as
> soon as i take the floppy out it doesn't work anymore..thus telling me
> that the actual zip drive did not get formatted or whatnaut.
> i suppose i'll keep trying with both the syquest ez 135 drive and the
> zip 100.
>