Emax

Hello,

I have a Emax I SE with a faulty disk drive. The lamp of the floppy
drive shines but the drive doesn't work any more. In the display I can
read the message:"Please insert disk!" even if I insert a disk.
Can tell me somebody of yours, which floppy drives are really
compatible to Emax I SE? 
Please don't refer me to the Route66 Studios. I think that the prices
there are too overexpensive.

Thanks for your advice!

Greetz Dan

If you are technically inclined, you should be able to make most  
standard floppies work. I was able to. The drive just needs to be  
able to be made a "Drive 0" which most new floppies are "Drive 1". I  
had to move a surface mount resistor to change it. But each drive  
layout of the board is different, so I can't just say "move this  
resistor/ jumper from here to here other than what I have already  
told you.

I figured it out by:
1) Looking up the floppy spec online
2) Looking at the original drive circuitry in relation to the spec.
3) Comparing the old drive to the new by tracing the circuit that was  
indicated from 1 and 2.

Required Digital Multimeter to verify 100% what I was doing, as it  
would be bad to fry the floppy controller for emax- that can be hard  
to find.


Regards,
Ted

On Oct 15, 2007, at 5:54 AM, tnb09061974 wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a Emax I SE with a faulty disk drive. The lamp of the floppy
> drive shines but the drive doesn't work any more. In the display I can
> read the message:"Please insert disk!" even if I insert a disk.
> Can tell me somebody of yours, which floppy drives are really
> compatible to Emax I SE?
> Please don't refer me to the Route66 Studios. I think that the prices
> there are too overexpensive.
>
> Thanks for your advice!
>
> Greetz Dan
>
>
> 



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Okay what I have done now?

I have removed a floppy drive from an old Atari STFM and replaced the
original floppy drive (Mitsubishi MF353B-12UJ) from the Emax SE with
that. And it works very well!!!

For all users with similar problems: The "new" floppy drive is an
Epson SMD-380 (but I´m sure that the Epson SMD-300 will also worked!)
... :-)

So far ... Dan

Hi there,

just got my first emax with SE, and the sampling is just awesome...
anyway...
i read somewhere on the web that you can get lucky with a lot of old
pc disc drives that were designed to read dd/sd floppies. when i have
a problem with my elecronics i go to a guy who works at a university
fixing computers and electronix. there might be somebody around where
you live with a messy department that doesnt clear anything out for
years...i know it sounds insane but worth a try?

best,
Peter

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "tnb09061974" <2nd.star@...> wrote:

>
> Hello,
> 
> I have a Emax I SE with a faulty disk drive. The lamp of the floppy
> drive shines but the drive doesn't work any more. In the display I can
> read the message:"Please insert disk!" even if I insert a disk.
> Can tell me somebody of yours, which floppy drives are really
> compatible to Emax I SE? 
> Please don't refer me to the Route66 Studios. I think that the prices
> there are too overexpensive.
> 
> Thanks for your advice!
> 
> Greetz Dan
>

I think you will find that any PC floppy disk drive with a jumper to set it to master will work. I simply connected up one that I found in a junk pile when my drive gave up the ghost. Make sure you connect up the cables properly eg. pin 1 on connector to pin 1 on cable, the power cable should only connect up one way.

manicpeter <manicpeter@...> wrote:                               Hi there,
 
 just got my first emax with SE, and the sampling is just awesome...
 anyway...
 i read somewhere on the web that you can get lucky with a lot of old
 pc disc drives that were designed to read dd/sd floppies. when i have
 a problem with my elecronics i go to a guy who works at a university
 fixing computers and electronix. there might be somebody around where
 you live with a messy department that doesnt clear anything out for
 years...i know it sounds insane but worth a try?
 
 best,
 Peter
 
 --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "tnb09061974" <2nd.star@...> wrote:
 >
 > Hello,
 > 
 > I have a Emax I SE with a faulty disk drive. The lamp of the floppy
 > drive shines but the drive doesn't work any more. In the display I can
 > read the message:"Please insert disk!" even if I insert a disk.
 > Can tell me somebody of yours, which floppy drives are really
 > compatible to Emax I SE? 
 > Please don't refer me to the Route66 Studios. I think that the prices
 > there are too overexpensive.
 > 
 > Thanks for your advice!
 > 
 > Greetz Dan
 >
 
 
     
                               

       
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that's really great to know!!!

I have received my emax in a great condition but it never has been 
put through it's paces and the operating mechanism always going back 
to the drive can be a bit scary.
also it has been funny with some recycled old dd/sd disks telling 
me 'bad disk' etc.

I could buy a lot of new TDK dd discs from ebay but the new ones are 
usually thin and flimsy and i used to have issues with TDK on my 
MPC60.

what are your experiences regarding discs reliability? which make do 
you find most reliable? how much do you (ab)use your emax?

best,
Pete



--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, Electro Chrisso <electrochrisso@...> 
wrote:
>
> I think you will find that any PC floppy disk drive with a jumper 
to set it to master will work. I simply connected up one that I found 
in a junk pile when my drive gave up the ghost. Make sure you connect 
up the cables properly eg. pin 1 on connector to pin 1 on cable, the 
power cable should only connect up one way.
> 
> manicpeter <manicpeter@...> wrote:                               Hi 
there,
>  
>  just got my first emax with SE, and the sampling is just awesome...
>  anyway...
>  i read somewhere on the web that you can get lucky with a lot of 
old
>  pc disc drives that were designed to read dd/sd floppies. when i 
have
>  a problem with my elecronics i go to a guy who works at a 
university
>  fixing computers and electronix. there might be somebody around 
where
>  you live with a messy department that doesnt clear anything out for
>  years...i know it sounds insane but worth a try?
>  
>  best,
>  Peter
>  
>  --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "tnb09061974" <2nd.star@> wrote:
>  >
>  > Hello,
>  > 
>  > I have a Emax I SE with a faulty disk drive. The lamp of the 
floppy
>  > drive shines but the drive doesn't work any more. In the display 
I can
>  > read the message:"Please insert disk!" even if I insert a disk.
>  > Can tell me somebody of yours, which floppy drives are really
>  > compatible to Emax I SE? 
>  > Please don't refer me to the Route66 Studios. I think that the 
prices
>  > there are too overexpensive.
>  > 
>  > Thanks for your advice!
>  > 
>  > Greetz Dan
>  >
>  
>  
>      
>                                
> 
>        
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> 
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>

I have been using Memorex and Nashua HD 1.44 disks with no problems as well as many different brand (mostly Perfect or Memorex) old style DSDD disks and have had very little problems.

manicpeter <manicpeter@...> wrote:                               that's really great to know!!!
 
 I have received my emax in a great condition but it never has been 
 put through it's paces and the operating mechanism always going back 
 to the drive can be a bit scary.
 also it has been funny with some recycled old dd/sd disks telling 
 me 'bad disk' etc.
 
 I could buy a lot of new TDK dd discs from ebay but the new ones are 
 usually thin and flimsy and i used to have issues with TDK on my 
 MPC60.
 
 what are your experiences regarding discs reliability? which make do 
 you find most reliable? how much do you (ab)use your emax?
 
 best,
 Pete
 
 --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, Electro Chrisso <electrochrisso@...> 
 wrote:
 >
 > I think you will find that any PC floppy disk drive with a jumper 
 to set it to master will work. I simply connected up one that I found 
 in a junk pile when my drive gave up the ghost. Make sure you connect 
 up the cables properly eg. pin 1 on connector to pin 1 on cable, the 
 power cable should only connect up one way.
 > 
 > manicpeter <manicpeter@...> wrote:                               Hi 
 there,
 >  
 >  just got my first emax with SE, and the sampling is just awesome...
 >  anyway...
 >  i read somewhere on the web that you can get lucky with a lot of 
 old
 >  pc disc drives that were designed to read dd/sd floppies. when i 
 have
 >  a problem with my elecronics i go to a guy who works at a 
 university
 >  fixing computers and electronix. there might be somebody around 
 where
 >  you live with a messy department that doesnt clear anything out for
 >  years...i know it sounds insane but worth a try?
 >  
 >  best,
 >  Peter
 >  
 >  --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "tnb09061974" <2nd.star@> wrote:
 >  >
 >  > Hello,
 >  > 
 >  > I have a Emax I SE with a faulty disk drive. The lamp of the 
 floppy
 >  > drive shines but the drive doesn't work any more. In the display 
 I can
 >  > read the message:"Please insert disk!" even if I insert a disk.
 >  > Can tell me somebody of yours, which floppy drives are really
 >  > compatible to Emax I SE? 
 >  > Please don't refer me to the Route66 Studios. I think that the 
 prices
 >  > there are too overexpensive.
 >  > 
 >  > Thanks for your advice!
 >  > 
 >  > Greetz Dan
 >  >
 >  
 >  
 >      
 >                                
 > 
 >        
 > ---------------------------------
 > National Bingo Night. Play along for the chance to win $10,000 
 every week. Download your gamecard now at Yahoo!7 TV.
 > 
 > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
 >
 
 
     
                               

       
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