Emax

This has been covered b4 probably but i just noticed the seup file is 800kb and i thought emax's only formatted to standard 720kb?
Thats one thing the other thing is how do i create a dos6.22 boot disk on floppy from windows vista? (ive tried it on cd and it says driver missing). Is it the whole fat32 ntfs thing?
Im not very PC literate.

Other question is which floppy drives can you use in the emax.
I think i might have to make some jumper adjustments or even
cut the cable and do a bit of swapping. Ive read that the sony mpf920 works and the other question is... which one (mpf920-e  -f    z/121)

Once youve made the switch can you use hd disks?

I know this has probably all been covered before but ive had a scan through the groups archives and i cannot see much.

Thanks in advance

>>This has been covered b4 probably but i just noticed the seup file  
is 800kb and i thought emax's only formatted to standard 720kb?

The file works when the disk is created with Emaxutil. That is all I  
can say.

  >> how do i create a dos6.22 boot disk on floppy from windows vista?

I just do it, I can't explain it. It has never been difficult for me.

 >>(ive tried it on cd and it says driver missing). Is it the whole  
fat32 ntfs thing?

to make a bootable dos CD you have to load in a CD driver into  
config.sys and autoexec.bat

It can be a pain to make one , but can be done.

CDs are not ntfs or fat32, there are a different type (High Sierra FS  
or Rockridge or something like that).

 >>Other question is which floppy drives can you use in the emax.
I think i might have to make some jumper adjustments or even
cut the cable and do a bit of swapping. Ive read that the sony mpf920  
works and the other question is... which one (mpf920-e -f z/121)

The jumpers on the model I had were SMT, so had to be soldered. And  
they changed the board after that rev, so I dunno if you can still do  
that mod.

But you should be able to modify a floppy cable by matching Schugart  
floppy pinouts to PC floppy pinouts, cut some of the wires in the  
ribbon and cross wire as needed.

It will leave a gap, but it is what it is.

Or if you have an internal SCSI Zip or CF you can get a slim floppy  
and one of my converters.

See a pic here:

http://djtbs1.spaces.live.com/

pic #4

 >>Once youve made the switch can you use hd disks?

You still need to cover the hole, but I have never had any problem  
with my slim floppy drives and HD disks for samples.



Regards,

Ted






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Thanks for your help
much appreciated

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Ted Summers <djtbs1@...> wrote:

>
>
>
> >>This has been covered b4 probably but i just noticed the seup file
> is 800kb and i thought emax's only formatted to standard 720kb?
>
> The file works when the disk is created with Emaxutil. That is all I
> can say.
>
> >> how do i create a dos6.22 boot disk on floppy from windows vista?
>
> I just do it, I can't explain it. It has never been difficult for me.
>
> >>(ive tried it on cd and it says driver missing). Is it the whole
> fat32 ntfs thing?
>
> to make a bootable dos CD you have to load in a CD driver into
> config.sys and autoexec.bat
>
> It can be a pain to make one , but can be done.
>
> CDs are not ntfs or fat32, there are a different type (High Sierra FS
> or Rockridge or something like that).
>
> >>Other question is which floppy drives can you use in the emax.
> I think i might have to make some jumper adjustments or even
> cut the cable and do a bit of swapping. Ive read that the sony mpf920
> works and the other question is... which one (mpf920-e -f z/121)
>
> The jumpers on the model I had were SMT, so had to be soldered. And
> they changed the board after that rev, so I dunno if you can still do
> that mod.
>
> But you should be able to modify a floppy cable by matching Schugart
> floppy pinouts to PC floppy pinouts, cut some of the wires in the
> ribbon and cross wire as needed.
>
> It will leave a gap, but it is what it is.
>
> Or if you have an internal SCSI Zip or CF you can get a slim floppy
> and one of my converters.
>
> See a pic here:
>
> http://djtbs1.spaces.live.com/
>
> pic #4
>
> >>Once youve made the switch can you use hd disks?
>
> You still need to cover the hole, but I have never had any problem
> with my slim floppy drives and HD disks for samples.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ted
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>  
>


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