Emax

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: dbaum0000 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 8:05 AM
  Subject: [emax] A couple of zip drive questions


    Hi all,

  My Emax II setup is pretty organised now. Everything appears to work fine and I am even using it as a controller keyboard for my other hard- and softsynths.

  I have a 100Mb Zipplus connected to the Emax. It turned out to be inconvenient to disconnect it from the Emax and use it with the kids computer (the only one with a parallel port) so I scored a USB zip drive from eBay (99p), which hopefully should arrive soon. Even so, I was able to successfully download banks from the web and load them into the Emax using EMXP.

  Some questions (I'm a zip drive newbie so please excuse my ignorance): 

  - I got 10 zipdisks from eBay. Five were still in their original wrappers and all formatted OK. Three of the rest made the drive click ominously. I should bin these, right? Is there any chance the other drive might be able to format them? One other clicked a bit but formatted in the end to 94 MB instead of 95MB. Is it safe to use this disk?

  - What are the chances that the USB drive will actually be able to read and write disks formatted in the other drive? I ask because I remember that in the days of the diskette this could not always be taken for granted.

  Thanks,

  Daniel



  


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> get rid of the disks they have been overused also be carefull of the zip you have an old model that is suffering the click of death when it starts to happen it gets worse until it wont even read a disk and they corupt the data on disk
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> always buy a plus drive as they are scsi and parrallell interfaces and dont suffer the cloick of death 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: dbaum0000 
>   To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 8:05 AM
>   Subject: [emax] A couple of zip drive questions
> 
> 
>     Hi all,
> 
>   My Emax II setup is pretty organised now. Everything appears to work fine and I am even using it as a controller keyboard for my other hard- and softsynths.
> 
>   I have a 100Mb Zipplus connected to the Emax. It turned out to be inconvenient to disconnect it from the Emax and use it with the kids computer (the only one with a parallel port) so I scored a USB zip drive from eBay (99p), which hopefully should arrive soon. Even so, I was able to successfully download banks from the web and load them into the Emax using EMXP.
> 
>   Some questions (I'm a zip drive newbie so please excuse my ignorance): 
> 
>   - I got 10 zipdisks from eBay. Five were still in their original wrappers and all formatted OK. Three of the rest made the drive click ominously. I should bin these, right? Is there any chance the other drive might be able to format them? One other clicked a bit but formatted in the end to 94 MB instead of 95MB. Is it safe to use this disk?
> 
>   - What are the chances that the USB drive will actually be able to read and write disks formatted in the other drive? I ask because I remember that in the days of the diskette this could not always be taken for granted.
> 
>   Thanks,
> 
>   Daniel
> 
> 
> 
>   
> 
> 
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>   No virus found in this incoming message.
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>   Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.87/2356 - Release Date: 09/09/09 06:53:00
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