Emax

I am trying to copy some Emax library images to an external 2GB Compact Flash card. But I am getting an error telling me "there is no enough space"

The CF card is formated with my Emax II just fine, I can booth from it. 

EMXP recognizes the CF card and is telling me:

Disk drive: H
Emax type: Emax-II
Disk capacity: 1912
Used Space: 1%
Available Space: 99%
Number of banks used: 0
Available No of banks: 100
Operating System: Emax II rev 2.14

Now I go back to: 1. Manage EMAX Bank Images

I got 52 Bank Images. I sellect ALL and then RETURN

Now: 2. Copy bank to REMOVABLE HD/CD drive letter H. Return

Now is asking me: POSSIBLE TARGET BANKS FOR BANK 11 KICKS

I choose 001.B00 Empty Bank: RETURN

Now I get an error: Disk file size is too large and is not supported by EMXP. Errorcode 555.

What am I doing wrong?

I am using the latest version of EMXP

I have another Emax II in my home country and I succeed in loading the CF 1GB drive with sounds but that was about a year ago and I do not remember how I did it.

Please help.

You are doing nothing wrong at all.

EMXP uses a limit of 2,000,000,000 bytes as the maximum supported disk size for Emax-II and Emulator-III hard disks.

When you ask disk details about the disk in EMXP, you don't get an error because for less-critical operations, EMXP is not checking against this 'hard' physical limit but only against the sizes mentioned in the 'FAT' table of the disk.

The limit of 2,000,000,000 has been in EMXP from the beginning, assuming that no one would ever use such big disks since 'according to Emu specialists' those capacities were simply not supported by the Emax-II and Emulator III.
We all know for a while now that the 540/850 MB limits mentioned out there are not correct and that the Emax-II seems capable of handling bigger disks. Its 'FAT' system is for sure flexible enough to indeed support larger disks.
 
Anyway, this explanation doesn't help you of course, because EMXP is internally working with this limit, and your disk exceeds it :-)
Of course I have to admit that taking 2,000,000,000 bytes as a limit at the time was a bit artificial, although EMXP will not deal with anything bigger than 4GB for sure - its code is simply not compatible with it. But at least it would have been better to take a real 2GB (=2,147,483,648 bytes) as a limit. This would solve your problem.

If I find some time I will scan the EMXP code and see if increasing the limit within EMXP is "safe", if so I will release a second build of v209. I will certainly go no bigger than 2GB because I'm pretty sure higher allowed sizes will cause problems.

///E-Synthesist


--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "Reinaldo" <vjrei@...> wrote:

>
> I am trying to copy some Emax library images to an external 2GB Compact Flash card. But I am getting an error telling me "there is no enough space"
> 
> The CF card is formated with my Emax II just fine, I can booth from it. 
> 
> EMXP recognizes the CF card and is telling me:
> 
> Disk drive: H
> Emax type: Emax-II
> Disk capacity: 1912
> Used Space: 1%
> Available Space: 99%
> Number of banks used: 0
> Available No of banks: 100
> Operating System: Emax II rev 2.14
> 
> Now I go back to: 1. Manage EMAX Bank Images
> 
> I got 52 Bank Images. I sellect ALL and then RETURN
> 
> Now: 2. Copy bank to REMOVABLE HD/CD drive letter H. Return
> 
> Now is asking me: POSSIBLE TARGET BANKS FOR BANK 11 KICKS
> 
> I choose 001.B00 Empty Bank: RETURN
> 
> Now I get an error: Disk file size is too large and is not supported by EMXP. Errorcode 555.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> I am using the latest version of EMXP
> 
> I have another Emax II in my home country and I succeed in loading the CF 1GB drive with sounds but that was about a year ago and I do not remember how I did it.
> 
> Please help.
>

Thank you.

The files I am trying to copy is the first of the 4 banks from the Silveriafamily web site. 

I believe I recalled transfering one file at a time last year but I tried to do the same now and I got some other problem. 

Just to save us time... why EMXP does not have an actual user friendly interface instead? I mean, DOS interface was left behind for a reason. I believe that having 2 windows "sorurce" and "destination" and just drag and droping bank files from one to the other would do. 

Thank you.

EMXP with a Windows GUI will be a payable version :-)

I have uploaded a new build (v2.09.2), which should solve the 2GB limit issue. I couldn't test it with a 2GB card though, because it seems I don't have a 2GB card here...

Note: the problem is not caused by either selecting banks one by one or by selecting a range or all of them at once: if you used a 2GB memory card with EMXP versions before v2.09.2, this error would always have been given.

///E-Synthesist

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "Reinaldo" <vjrei@...> wrote:

>
> Thank you.
> 
> The files I am trying to copy is the first of the 4 banks from the Silveriafamily web site. 
> 
> I believe I recalled transfering one file at a time last year but I tried to do the same now and I got some other problem. 
> 
> Just to save us time... why EMXP does not have an actual user friendly interface instead? I mean, DOS interface was left behind for a reason. I believe that having 2 windows "sorurce" and "destination" and just drag and droping bank files from one to the other would do. 
> 
> Thank you.
>