Emax

Hi,

Not sure that any of this will help you, but here goes... 

Does the drive make any sound at all? Does it appear to have power, spin and seek? That 
might give you an idea of whether the drive is failing, there is no power to the drive, or the 
machine is locking up. 

My Emax I has had floppy problems since I got it out of storage. 

Worse case, it won't load anything when I turn it on. Although if I turn it off, wait and then 
on again it usually at least loads the OS. 

Then it will have trouble loading banks. I leave it turned on for a while and try again 
occasionally. After a while, it starts loading correctly and will continue working until I turn 
it off again. 

I assume I'm seeing some kind of drive failure that will end up being permanent, or maybe 
a bad electrical connection that improves as it warms up. If anyone knows what might 
solve this, please let me know. 

By the way, I've never been able to get a floppy to work that I've formatted with EMXP. (See 
previous thread on this group.) Apparently it's to do with incompatibilities with certain 
drives. I have to format them in the Emax I, then EMXP works fine for all other functions. 

C.


--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "S. Hernandez" <mint909@y...> wrote:
>
> So, I recently got my EMAX I and the shit doesn't want to accept the disc! It keeps saying 
> "INSERT DISC" and I do but it doesn't load or anything. It appears to be frozen where 
> nothing happens.
> 
> I did a search for smiler problems and I found someone had this problem too. Would it 
be 
> the disc drive? Should I just throw it violently at the person who sold it to me?!?!?! j/k
> 
> Seriously though, any ideas. I just got my Rhodes sounds to and I was ready to play. 
> 
> DAMN!
>