So this adapter is working more like a USB stick device and less like a persistent system device.
in other words, it's only seen when a media is mounted, not when the adapter is simply present on the bus.
My suggestion- On the PC side get a multi-card reader that plugs into USB. They are cheap and easy to find.
Without media inserted you should have a drive letter for each and every slot.
If you try and access a drive with no media, it will give you an error of course (you have to figure out which drive letter is the appropriate slot).
Once you know that you will ignore the media on insertion and use the prior-assigned drive letter in EMXP.
I can take a DOS formatted media, and put a Emax formatted image on and boot from it.... it really has been that simple....
Then only use your existing IDE to CF adapter(s) in the Emax with the bridge.
Hopefully that takes windows out of the equation, in that respect.
First step I would take is verify I can boot your logic from my
known working drives (the media drive and the ATAPI with bridge) and
read and write bank.
If it doesn't, the next step I
would take is to start looking at the SCSI modification. It is possible
that one of the connections has been broken on the SCSI modification
(assuming this isnt a PC333 board). - you could potentially also do this by reviewing the SCSI retrofit update instructions.
From there (assuming no problem with logic) I would test each individual part of the setup.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 8:36 AM, xeelox@... [emax] <emax@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
My Floppy is internal, connceted to mobo as well and I have the omniflop driver installed just like you. But floppies in EMXP are not an issue for me. Only "Emax formatted" scsi hdd and cf cards exhibit the behavior I have described.These are the 2 IDE flash drives I am using:Addonics ADIDECFB - http://www.addonics.com/products/adidecf.phpHexin Technology HXSP 2108P - http://www.soarland.com/Universal_40-pin_Male_IDE_To_CF_Card_Adapter-product-163.htmlI only ever connect 1 at a time for testing purposes, it's always set as the secondary master, and BIOS is set to auto detect. Windows has no trouble assigning a drive letter if the format of the drive is something it can recognize (dos, fat, ntfs, etc.) If a disk shows up in disk management as RAW or Unknown I get a screen exactly like this: http://i.imgur.com/xEd4K8B.pngAnd every single Emax formatted SCSI drive and CF card I have put into both my Win XP &; Win 7 machines reports the format as either raw or unknown, and without any drive letter.- Jim
