Part List for CF Card Upgrade
2012-02-13 by freddy1771994
Hi, short question, short answer: Which parts do I need if I want to work with cf cards? Anything I should pay attention to? Thank you!
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Part List for CF Card Upgrade
Re: [emax] Part List for CF Card Upgrade
2012-02-13 by jammie
3.5" slim floppy drive slim floppy convertor this needs to be changed by making cuts and soldering wires pcd 50 b scsi card slot drive pcmcia to cf card adapter and a cf card 32mb
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From: freddy1771994
To: emax@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 8:16 PM
Subject: [emax] Part List for CF Card Upgrade
Hi,
short question, short answer:
Which parts do I need if I want to work with cf cards? Anything I should pay attention to?
Thank you!
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2012-02-14 by freddy1771994
Ok thanks, 1) by mentioning soldering wires and stuff like that you mean probably the process which is well-described by Ted Summers' website? 2) The final conncetion will look like that?: PCD50b -> modificated JM215a slim floppy converter -> EMAX floppy connection [Why isn't it connected to the faster(?) harddrive scsi conncetion?] 3) Then I have to make sure that the the cf cards' size doesn't exceed 1gb (I read it somewhere) and are version 1 or 2? Thanks for answering! Freddy
Re: [emax] Re: Part List for CF Card Upgrade
2012-02-14 by jammie
the pcb50b fits to the scsi connector the slim floppy fits to the slimfloppy convertor jm215a with the correct wiring shown on teds page cf cards can oly be formated to 512mb for emax 2 so get 512 cards other wise you are wasting card space as seeing that 512mb cards are cheaper i would but those for the emax2 emax 1 only formats to 20mb so no piont in buying anything above 32mb they sell for about £2-4 so are cheap as chips as 10 dd disks will cost £8-10 and you get 36 banks on 1 cf card ps any one buying banks of net or ebay where they say 5 zipp 100 disk with full EII library on is talking rubbish as you only get 36 banks on 1 zip 100 cart there are 400 floppy library files just from northstar and on the other EII cdromms theres also a lot of images on the emax2 you are limited to 100 banks so if you have 100 EII banks on a emax2 drive it will use up the hole hd even though its only 400k to a EII bank image
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From: freddy1771994
To: emax@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 1:20 PM
Subject: [emax] Re: Part List for CF Card Upgrade
Ok thanks,
1) by mentioning soldering wires and stuff like that you mean probably the process which is well-described by Ted Summers' website?
2) The final conncetion will look like that?:
PCD50b -> modificated JM215a slim floppy converter -> EMAX floppy
connection
[Why isn't it connected to the faster(?) harddrive scsi conncetion?]
3) Then I have to make sure that the the cf cards' size doesn't exceed 1gb (I read it somewhere) and are version 1 or 2?
Thanks for answering!
Freddy
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2012-02-14 by jammie
forget about the emax2 you can only get 100 images on a zip100 disk formated in the emax2 sampler 512mb can have more banks as depending on what emax version you have 1mb/2mb/4mb/8mb bank sizes 8mb sizes are the same sizes that the e3x bank size and so you can transfer 8mb banks from e3x cdrom disks in emxp
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From: jammie
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Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: [emax] Re: Part List for CF Card Upgrade
the pcb50b fits to the scsi connector the slim floppy fits to the slimfloppy convertor jm215a with the correct wiring shown on teds page
cf cards can oly be formated to 512mb for emax 2 so get 512 cards other wise you are wasting card space as seeing that 512mb cards are cheaper i would but those for the emax2 emax 1 only formats to 20mb so no piont in buying anything above 32mb they sell for about £2-4 so are cheap as chips as 10 dd disks will cost £8-10 and you get 36 banks on 1 cf card
ps any one buying banks of net or ebay where they say 5 zipp 100 disk with full EII library on is talking rubbish
as you only get 36 banks on 1 zip 100 cart
there are 400 floppy library files just from northstar
and on the other EII cdromms theres also a lot of images
on the emax2 you are limited to 100 banks so if you have 100 EII banks on a emax2 drive it will use up the hole hd even though its only 400k to a EII bank image
----- Original Message -----
From: freddy1771994
To: emax@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 1:20 PM
Subject: [emax] Re: Part List for CF Card Upgrade
Ok thanks,
1) by mentioning soldering wires and stuff like that you mean probably the process which is well-described by Ted Summers' website?
2) The final conncetion will look like that?:
PCD50b -> modificated JM215a slim floppy converter -> EMAX floppy
connection
[Why isn't it connected to the faster(?) harddrive scsi conncetion?]
3) Then I have to make sure that the the cf cards' size doesn't exceed 1gb (I read it somewhere) and are version 1 or 2?
Thanks for answering!
Freddy
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[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]Re: Part List for CF Card Upgrade
2012-02-14 by freddy1771994
Hi thank you very much for that informative answer! Sounds easy... I 'll get one of those for my emax II (8mb). Just one little question remains: -I'm wondering if I want to buy an EMAX 1 without SCSI and which does not even have the possibility to upgrade it to SCSI, could I mount a JM215a floppy converter + pcb50b to use the floppy connection as a standard external harddrive by using cf cards?
Re: Part List for CF Card Upgrade
2012-02-14 by Matthew
The pcb50b is a SCSI device. To my knowledge, you need an EMAX I/II with SCSI in order to use it. The JM215A is just an adapter to go from a standard floppy connector to a slim floppy connector so you can use a slim floppy with the EMAX I/II. --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "freddy1771994" <freddy1771994@...> wrote:
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> > Hi thank you very much for that informative answer! > Sounds easy... > I 'll get one of those for my emax II (8mb). > > Just one little question remains: > > -I'm wondering if I want to buy an EMAX 1 without SCSI and which does not even have the possibility to upgrade it to SCSI, could I mount a JM215a floppy converter + pcb50b to use the floppy connection as a standard external harddrive by using cf cards? >
Re: Part List for CF Card Upgrade
2012-02-14 by freddy1771994
by the way 'jammie emma'; do you or any other european know a shop/person in europe where i can get a pcb50b? I cannot find a single one. I don't want to pay unnecessary taxes and shipping again as I had to when I ordered a bunch 44256ICs. Thanks a lot!
Re: [emax] Re: Part List for CF Card Upgrade
2012-02-14 by jammie
no if you get 1 that cant be converted i have spare mother boards that can so i could exchange them for a working scsi mother board i did that for nik as his was broken
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From: freddy1771994
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Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 4:23 PM
Subject: [emax] Re: Part List for CF Card Upgrade
Hi thank you very much for that informative answer!
Sounds easy...
I 'll get one of those for my emax II (8mb).
Just one little question remains:
-I'm wondering if I want to buy an EMAX 1 without SCSI and which does not even have the possibility to upgrade it to SCSI, could I mount a JM215a floppy converter + pcb50b to use the floppy connection as a standard external harddrive by using cf cards?
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2012-02-14 by jammie
amiga whare is the only supplier and they are in the states but they are cheap with postage and import dutie it cost me just £50 which is cheap for a scsi cf drive as scsi for samplers when they were trading where twice as much and the pcd50b are hot swappable as the pcmcia ata card slot is as long as your not writing or loading
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From: freddy1771994
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Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 5:06 PM
Subject: [emax] Re: Part List for CF Card Upgrade
by the way 'jammie emma';
do you or any other european know a shop/person in europe where i can get a pcb50b? I cannot find a single one. I don't want to pay unnecessary taxes and shipping again as I had to when I ordered a bunch 44256ICs.
Thanks a lot!
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2012-02-14 by freddy1771994
Ok thank you. Everything is clear now for me. EMAX II gets a PCD-50b and the soon coming EMAXI will still work via SCSI............