it does the same thing when i used a separate floppy with both os and bank.
i tried a dozen times to load from that floppy. so i switched back to the
floppy with just the os and it didn't seem to work. however, after maybe
the fifth or sixth try it actually worked! it didn't tell me bad disk or
bad bank and preset 00 showed up on the screen. so i took another floppy
with just a preset on it and after another five or six tries that actually
loaded up! now that i have a preset loaded in, i tested the midi and
outputs and that all works fine. so it seems that the disk drive is just
old and grumpy and doesn't want to cooperate.
thanks for your help. i think i can safely say at this point either the
disk drive needs a work out to get back into shape or this emax needs a
brand new drive full of youthful energy.
:)
B
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 8:06 AM, esynthesist <esynthesist@...> wrote:
> What happens if you also put a bank on the same disk ?
> I assume until now you only formatted the disk and put the OS on it.
> But all emax disks can have the OS and a soundbank on the very same
> disk, so an "OS-only" disk is not really in the vocabulary of Emax :-)
>
> I know that my Emax always tries to load a bank immediately after
> booting, so that's quite normal. But if it doesn't find a bank on the
> disk it should quit that process and end up with an empty bank in
> memory.
> So it seems your Emax thinks there's actually a bank on the disk but
> while reading it it gets a disk read error. This could be due to an
> old or bad floppy disk, or due to your drive.
> So just to make sure what's happening I would suggest to put also a
> real sound bank on the same disk (eg with EMXP) and see what happens.
> If it still gives a disk error, try other disks. Also if your Emax
> drive hasn't been used for a long period of time, I would suggest to
> try to read disks several times (10, 20, ...). On my old 80's PC's I
> also have to keep retrying reading disks just to get the
> diskdrive "alive" again :-)
>
> ///E-Synthesist
>
>
> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com <emax%40yahoogroups.com>, "Brooks Mosher"
> <brooksmosher@...> wrote:
> >
> > hi, i've been following this group for a while and i've even
> uploaded some
> > sample banks up on here.
> >
> > i bought an Emax recently for cheap but it wasn't guaranteed to
> work. when
> > i first got it i didn't have an OS disk but i turned it on and the
> screen is
> > nice and blue and it powered up. it asked "please insert disk".
> now i have
> > the OS copied onto a diskette thanks to the emulator archive, EMXP,
> and
> > omnifloppy. so i power up the Emax with the OS disk, it boots up,
> but then
> > the screen indicates "loading bank" and then disk error. my last
> Emax
> > wouldn't try to load a bank from an OS disk, so i'm wondering if
> anyone here
> > knows what i did wrong. or if maybe the disk drive is bad. any
> input would
> > be very much appreciated!!
> >
> > thanks in advance!!!!
> >
> >
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> >
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