Emax

Hi everyone,

New member here. Nice to see the Emax community still thrives.

I just acquired an Emax SE Rack, and I think the floppy drive 
might be crapped out. I just wanted to tell everyone what's 
happening, and see if there might be something I haven't 
thought of. Here are some of the things that happen:

1. when I load the boot disk that came with the unit, I will 
sometimes (not always), get a message saying "Please Insert 
Disk" even though the disk is in the drive. 

2. Sometimes the abovementioned disk will begin to load, and 
then when it gets to loading the bank on the disk i get a "Disk 
Error!" message. Once I was actually able to navigate a little bit 
through the OS, but most functions needed to be loaded off the 
disk, so I got disk errors afterward.

3. When I attempt to load disks that I have from when I used to 
own an Emax SE keyboard, the rack will give me a message 
saying "Disk Not Formatted!" even though I know the disks were 
formatted using OS 1.1.

4. Most other times I stick a disk in and I just get a "Disk Error" 
message.

What I don't understand is if the floppy drive is busted, why do I 
get different messages? 

Anyway, just thought I'd throw that out there and see if someone 
recognizes the symptoms of a floppy drive gone bad.

thanks,
gordon hurd