Emax

As my Emax II harddisk is slowly dying, what are the experiences of  
Emax II owners
wrt replacements?

I currently have a Conner CP-3100 (105MB).  I already found a 2GB  
Quantum in my
own collection of old drives, but the Emax doesn't like that very much.

Are there any larger drives that can be made to work?

Some older HD have a jumper to set it to 512MB limit.

Maybe that would make it work- if ti has that option?

Just a thought.

regards,
Ted

On Jul 16, 2009, at 7:05 AM, Louis van Dompselaar wrote:

As my Emax II harddisk is slowly dying, what are the experiences of
Emax II owners
wrt replacements?

I currently have a Conner CP-3100 (105MB). I already found a 2GB
Quantum in my
own collection of old drives, but the Emax doesn't like that very much.

Are there any larger drives that can be made to work?






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I had a lot of luck opening my EMAX I's HD up and manually spinning the disk then formatting.  if the problem is that the disk isn;t spinning.  Now I have a CF card reader in an external box set for scsi ID 0 and I just the the HD stop spinning without restarting.

 

After long time of not powering up, it will not spin again, and a few slaps on the top can make it start again!  Worked for years like that, but not a permanent solution.

 


 


To: emax@yahoogroups.com

From: djtbs1@...
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:18:31 -0700
Subject: Re: [emax] Emax II HD

  



Some older HD have a jumper to set it to 512MB limit.

Maybe that would make it work- if ti has that option?

Just a thought.

regards,
Ted

On Jul 16, 2009, at 7:05 AM, Louis van Dompselaar wrote:

As my Emax II harddisk is slowly dying, what are the experiences of
Emax II owners
wrt replacements?

I currently have a Conner CP-3100 (105MB). I already found a 2GB
Quantum in my
own collection of old drives, but the Emax doesn't like that very much.

Are there any larger drives that can be made to work?

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You should be able to use any Quantum drive that came out of an old SCSI based mac up to 500 Mb.
Maybe up to 1GB will work.  I ditch my hard drive and floppy drive for an old SCSI based CF writer/reader that I installed internally where
the floppy drive was. I then use EMXP to format and create banks on the CF cards.

check this out.   http://www.scsiforsamplers.com/

Elk



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From: Louis van Dompselaar <louis@...>
To: emax@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 7:05:28 AM
Subject: [emax] Emax II HD

  
As my Emax II harddisk is slowly dying, what are the experiences of 
Emax II owners
wrt replacements?

I currently have a Conner CP-3100 (105MB). I already found a 2GB 
Quantum in my
own collection of old drives, but the Emax doesn't like that very much.

Are there any larger drives that can be made to work?




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The problem is that the disks starts spinning and then stops again.
It usually starts working after 10-20 attempts, but it's too slow
to be able to boot off of it.  The Emax will give up before the
disk is ready.

I used to have to hit my Amiga A1200 to get the drive to spin.  Got
used to that pretty quickly and used it for years like that.

I found someone close by though that appears to have a stack
of 52MB Quantum drives.  Going to check those out tonight.


Op 16 jul 2009, om 17:16 heeft el macaco het volgende geschreven:

>
> I had a lot of luck opening my EMAX I's HD up and manually spinning  
> the disk then formatting.  if the problem is that the disk isn;t  
> spinning.  Now I have a CF card reader in an external box set for  
> scsi ID 0 and I just the the HD stop spinning without restarting.

Yes, that would be the preferred solution.  However, at $89+$30  
shipping to Europe,
it's not worth it, especially since I'm repairing to sell (and they  
sell for around
$200-$250 over here).

> I ditch my hard drive and floppy drive for an old SCSI based CF  
> writer/reader that I installed internally where
> the floppy drive was. I then use EMXP to format and create banks on  
> the CF cards.