Since you have a PC, and now have SCSI, can you try to run EMXP- format the SCSI HD using EMXP to put it in Emax format, then try that drive in the Emax?
Then you could put your original (not PLUS) OS on it....
just a suggestion
-T
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:15 PM, xeelox@... [emax] <emax@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>>My spares had come out of old Macs, and had no issue formatting2 of my drives are old Mac drives and while they had originally been reformatted in the Emax without issue, neither one works now as per the earlier attempts to copy new OS software in Emax. I don't have a Mac w/ scsi any more to try to format back to Mac os and retry.>>but you said one of the drives boots the Emax and the other two or three don't, is that correct?
Yes, 1 drive does still boot in all the other Emaxes, but after 3 other drives have gone belly up trying to copy the plus OS onto them, I am extremely reluctant to do anything with this last drive because I don't want to render my last HD unusable until I know what's causing this.To sum up this growing thread, I have 4 working Emaxes: 2 HD SE keyboards, 1 HD keyboard & 1 HD rack and about 6 scsi hard drives, but only 3 of which I consider to be fully reliable.I upgraded the HD keyboard to SE, then booted to a Plus OS floppy to copy the plus OS to the hard drive. After copying the plus OS, the Emax HD keyboard wouldn't boot to its hard drive any more, and any HD menu options would give an error.I then assumed the HD was bad and proceeded to take working hard drives out of my other Emaxes and put them into the HD keyboard that I had just upgraded to SE to see if I could copy the Plus OS to them. BUT now they all suffer the same issue of not booting.Next I thought it was perhaps that specific keyboard, so I tried those drives in the HD rack and also in one of the HD SE keyboards, but got the same non-booting behavior. So I am really at a loss to say whether it is multiple drives or multiple Emaxes.So Windows recognizes 2 of the 3 drives that Emax won't, and I formatted & tested them in Windows. They seem fine in Windows. So, hoping the format might have made a difference I tried the drives back in the Emaxes, but they don't work--in any of the Emaxes.I'm stumped, and worse, I'm afraid to spring for a CF drive until I have some sense of what's going on as I wouldn't know what to troubleshoot/blame if I get the same behavior w/ a new CF drive.Thanks,Jim