Emax

BTW...are you sure your disks are in good shape? Maybe you should try a fresh
copy of your sound bank on some new disks. Could be the surface on the old disks
are no longer retaining a good magnetic field. But that would only give you an
error when trying to read a disk.

Bob

anthony wilson wrote:

> >From: "John Silveria" <emaxjs@...>
> >Reply-To: emax@egroups.com
> >To: emax@egroups.com
> >Subject: [emax] Re: emaxII breakdown
> >Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 15:55:20 -0000
> >
> >My guess would be a bad disk drive. Do you have an HD or removable
> >media drive you can try with it to see if it's just a disk drive
> >issue?
> >
> >--- In emax@egroups.com, "anthony wilson" <whoppachops@h...> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have an Emax II that works perfectly for about half an hour then
> >decides
> > > to give up the ghost.  The display first reads disk error and then
> >says
> > > 'please insert disk!' even thought the disk has not been removed.
> >Can
> > > anybody help explain as to why this happens and/or provide a
> >solution to the
> > > problem?
> >
> >
> cheers for the prompt response, i do have a HD drive but i am pretty sure it
> is a fault with the floppy drive.  The guy at Audio Engineering in
> Manchester said it could be that the springs in the drive are out of line
> (!!??) whatever that means, he said it may cost \ufffd100-\ufffd150 to fix, is this
> right?
>
> Cheers again
>
> Anth
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