Emax

Try http://www.emulatorarchive.com. I don't know if anyone here is going to be able to 
help you. 

From what I've read it should be able to format up to a 2GB drive. But, that's with a ? 
There aren't any drives over 1.7GB listed on the compatibility chart. There is no mention 
of SYSEX ever being added. It mentions that it is preferable to use slower spinning hard 
drives 5400 rpm. I know the Emax II can not boot from drives that take too long to "spin 
up" (I've had issues with Maxtor drives) but a solution to that is to tell it to boot from an 
unused SCSI ID # and when that fails it will cycle through the IDs until it finds a bootable 
device, by which time the hard drive should be ready.

On 11 Feb 2004 at 15:48, Chris Strellis spoke unto me:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have a turbo Emulator IIIxp where I managed to change the hard drive
> from 105MB to a 9.1GB Compaq.  It formatted OK to 8860MB much to my
> surprise.
> 
> Question 1:
> Despite copying the software to it, it won't boot from the drive, I
> have to use the floppy drive or the old 105MB drive to boot from.  I
> had to add termination resisters internally on the Emu motherboard to
> get it to be recognised when using it as a single drive. Anyone know
> why it won't boot?
> 
> Question 2:
> Copying a CD of samples to the drive stopped at about 94% free space
> on the new drive.  This equates to about 500MB so is there a 540MB
> limit to drive size.  Remember it formatted to nearly 9GB and the disk
> status says it is 94% free but copying any more data results in a disk
> full error message.  Can anyone confirm the drive limit?  I know Emax
> IIs max out at 500MB.
> 
> Question 3:
> I can control the filters/EGs/LFOs etc on both my Emax SE and Emax II
> from my Peavey PC1600 controller using sysex.  Can this be done on the
> EIIIxp.  The manual says that Sysex is "Yet To Be Implement".  Was it
> ever?  I have the last V2.10 software.  I believe the ESI-32 range
> onwards dropped sysex control of these parameters.
> 
> Question 4:
> If it can be controlled by sysex what is its Device ID?
> 
> Many thanks in advance for your insightful answers.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Emax and Emax II User's Group Website
> 
> http://www.silveriafamily.com 
> Yahoo! Groups Links
> 
> 
> 



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