Emax

Hello all, 
 I have an EMAX II keyboard, and have O/S 2.14 on a floppy. Everything loads fine, but when I try to format a zip100 disk it tells me "Different software revision!!" (  I choose SCSI id 5, and it says "this is not an EMAX disk" so it detects the SCSI zip drive )
Does the same thing when I try to access other menu level options. Any ideas? Is this a bad OS disk?
Thanks for any ideas.   : )

Jason V - Synth player for the band TV - www.last.fm/music_TV_ 



      

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which type of zip100 is it? i have an iomega zip100 'plus' version which i fear is not compatible with the emaxII.. (can someone verify this?)....the emax sees the zip drive, sees that the disk is 100mb, but when i formatted it says disk not formatted. if i try to load form the zip, i get "this is not an EMAX disk". i also get "Different software revision!!" if i try to use some menu items in master says as the emu bird run thingy.


--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, nung242 <nung242@...> wrote:

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> Hello all, 
>  I have an EMAX II keyboard, and have O/S 2.14 on a floppy. Everything loads fine, but when I try to format a zip100 disk it tells me "Different software revision!!" (  I choose SCSI id 5, and it says "this is not an EMAX disk" so it detects the SCSI zip drive )
> Does the same thing when I try to access other menu level options. Any ideas? Is this a bad OS disk?
> Thanks for any ideas.   : )
> 
> Jason V - Synth player for the band TV - www.last.fm/music_TV_ 
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I have a standard zip100 scsi, not the plus. I cant even get to the format part, my emax detects the drive, says its not an EMAX disk, but gives me the "Different software Revision!!"
message when I try to format. I get the same message on a lot of other menu items, like the whole synthesis menu. I can't format a floppy either, I had to use EMXP to format my floppies and load sounds. 
I want to transfer the large library of sounds I have to zip100 till I can get the CF card setup.
Thanks for all your time, the EMAX community is great.
JasonV  - www.last.fm/music/_TV_    I'm the crazy guy on synths...  : )    

--- On Tue, 4/28/09, Phreak boy <gertie01@...> wrote:

From: Phreak boy <gertie01@...>
Subject: [emax] Re: Question on O/S versions
To: emax@yahoogroups.com
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      which type of zip100 is it? i have an iomega zip100 'plus' version which i fear is not compatible with the emaxII.. (can someone verify this?)....the emax sees the zip drive, sees that the disk is 100mb, but when i formatted it says disk not formatted. if i try to load form the zip, i get "this is not an EMAX disk". i also get "Different software revision!!" if i try to use some menu items in master says as the emu bird run thingy.



--- In emax@yahoogroups. com, nung242 <nung242@... > wrote:

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> Hello all, 

>  I have an EMAX II keyboard, and have O/S 2.14 on a floppy. Everything loads fine, but when I try to format a zip100 disk it tells me "Different software revision!!" (  I choose SCSI id 5, and it says "this is not an EMAX disk" so it detects the SCSI zip drive )

> Does the same thing when I try to access other menu level options. Any ideas? Is this a bad OS disk?

> Thanks for any ideas.   : )

> 

> Jason V - Synth player for the band TV - www.last.fm/ music_TV_ 

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Which Emax do you have?  Sounds like you just need a floppy with the correct
OS.

-s*

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:05 AM, nung242 <nung242@...> wrote:

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> I have a standard zip100 scsi, not the plus. I cant even get to the format
> part, my emax detects the drive, says its not an EMAX disk, but gives me the
> "Different software Revision!!"
> message when I try to format. I get the same message on a lot of other menu
> items, like the whole synthesis menu. I can't format a floppy either, I had
> to use EMXP to format my floppies and load sounds.
> I want to transfer the large library of sounds I have to zip100 till I can
> get the CF card setup.
> Thanks for all your time, the EMAX community is great.
> JasonV  - www.last.fm/music/_TV_    I'm the crazy guy on synths...  : )
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> --- On Tue, 4/28/09, Phreak boy <gertie01@... <gertie01%40gmail.com>>
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> From: Phreak boy <gertie01@... <gertie01%40gmail.com>>
> Subject: [emax] Re: Question on O/S versions
> To: emax@yahoogroups.com <emax%40yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 7:07 AM
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> which type of zip100 is it? i have an iomega zip100 'plus' version which i
> fear is not compatible with the emaxII.. (can someone verify this?)....the
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> it says disk not formatted. if i try to load form the zip, i get "this is
> not an EMAX disk". i also get "Different software revision!!" if i try to
> use some menu items in master says as the emu bird run thingy.
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I have used an Zip 100+ with Emax 1.
I have seen the error message you indicate when the OS on the floppy you are
trying to write to does not match the OS loaded in memory......
Whast happens if you-
boot from a floppy.
format new floppy.
copy OS to that floppy from the floppy you booted from.
now make changes and save to the floppy you just formatted?
I would not expect to see the error then.

Regards,
Ted
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Phreak boy <gertie01@...> wrote:

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>
> which type of zip100 is it? i have an iomega zip100 'plus' version which i
> fear is not compatible with the emaxII.. (can someone verify this?)....the
> emax sees the zip drive, sees that the disk is 100mb, but when i formatted
> it says disk not formatted. if i try to load form the zip, i get "this is
> not an EMAX disk". i also get "Different software revision!!" if i try to
> use some menu items in master says as the emu bird run thingy.
>
> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com <emax%40yahoogroups.com>, nung242 <nung242@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >  I have an EMAX II keyboard, and have O/S 2.14 on a floppy. Everything
> loads fine, but when I try to format a zip100 disk it tells me "Different
> software revision!!" (  I choose SCSI id 5, and it says "this is not an EMAX
> disk" so it detects the SCSI zip drive )
> > Does the same thing when I try to access other menu level options. Any
> ideas? Is this a bad OS disk?
> > Thanks for any ideas.   : )
> >
> > Jason V - Synth player for the band TV - www.last.fm/music_TV_
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Hi,

I use a Zip 100 plus drive with the SCSI/Parallel autodetect feature on my 4mb Emax II Rack unit and it works absolutley fine.

It formats the Zip disks okay (takes a while though) and then automatically copies onto the zip disk the OS 2.14 so that it is then ready for me to copy EMAX II sound banks to it via the (excellent) EXMP software and an older PC laptop with a parallel Zip drive plugged into it. This setup all seems to work surprisingly well and EXMP reports the foramtted disk as 96mb after formatting. All I did was set the SCSI ID on the back of the Plus drive to 5 and with a formatted zip disk in, my Emax instantly boots up from it. 

Regards,

Keith




--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "Phreak boy" <gertie01@...> wrote:

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> which type of zip100 is it? i have an iomega zip100 'plus' version which i fear is not compatible with the emaxII.. (can someone verify this?)....the emax sees the zip drive, sees that the disk is 100mb, but when i formatted it says disk not formatted. if i try to load form the zip, i get "this is not an EMAX disk". i also get "Different software revision!!" if i try to use some menu items in master says as the emu bird run thingy.
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> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, nung242 <nung242@> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all, 
> >  I have an EMAX II keyboard, and have O/S 2.14 on a floppy. Everything loads fine, but when I try to format a zip100 disk it tells me "Different software revision!!" (  I choose SCSI id 5, and it says "this is not an EMAX disk" so it detects the SCSI zip drive )
> > Does the same thing when I try to access other menu level options. Any ideas? Is this a bad OS disk?
> > Thanks for any ideas.   : )
> > 
> > Jason V - Synth player for the band TV - www.last.fm/music_TV_ 
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dunno if you solved this or not....but...i had the same issue...and it was the os floppy causing the issue....

i made a boot floppy using exmp (downlopaded the o.s. file form the files section in here). worked fine, no error messages. I could boot the emax with it..however it would not format zip disks. Also some of the menu selections did not work...giving a wrong os version or something like that, for example the bird run did not work.

i got someone to make me a boot floppy from their emax..and now everything works fine!!! 

so if you make boot floppy using exmp, and get error messages or are unable to format a zip disk....check if the bird run works....if it doesnt it means your o.s. disk is probably the issue

hope this helps for someone in the future...

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, nung242 <nung242@...> wrote:

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> Hello all, 
>  I have an EMAX II keyboard, and have O/S 2.14 on a floppy. Everything loads fine, but when I try to format a zip100 disk it tells me "Different software revision!!" (  I choose SCSI id 5, and it says "this is not an EMAX disk" so it detects the SCSI zip drive )
> Does the same thing when I try to access other menu level options. Any ideas? Is this a bad OS disk?
> Thanks for any ideas.   : )
> 
> Jason V - Synth player for the band TV - www.last.fm/music_TV_ 
> 
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