Emax

Oh wow. That is incredibly cool; congrats on getting it to work! So
how quickly does it boot up from the card?
--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "pauzetanker" <rexbautista@...> wrote:
>
> well it's finally been accomplished! my emax is now floppy and hdd free.
> 
> funny story -- if you've been following my journey, i've been trying
> to figure out how to make/run an SE upgrade disk on my emax, since i
> don't have a PC that can make emax formatted disks. well, it turns out
> my emax was already upgraded to SE, but the hdd only had OS 1.1
loaded.  
> 
> after failing (a lot) with making an SE disk, i figured, what the
> hell, i'll see what happens if i copy the Plus OS to my SD card and
> try booting from it. so, using EMXP and the pcmcia card slot on an old
> Dell laptop i had, i replaced the OS 1.1 that was copied to the SD
> card with the Plus OS.  Lo and behold, it boots!  that meant my emax
> was SE upgraded all along!!  (it also meant i wasted a good two weeks
> with my silly little experiments).
> 
> after a bit more tinkering, i found out that the pcd-15b has active
> termination built in, so i didn't need the two-device scsi cable with
> an added terminator at the end.  scsi id 0 is Slot A, and scsi id 1 is
> Slot B (as expected).
> 
> i used the "jumper on pin 26" trick to fool the emax into thinking
> there was a floppy connected.
> 
> so, since i don't have a floppy now, i rely on that old Dell laptop's
> pcmcia slot and EMXP to add banks on my SD or CF cards.  works like a
> charm.
> 
> formatting new cards is easy -- i just use the "copy hd" function to
> copy from one scsi id to another.  the whole thing overall is very
> quick, and SILENT. :)
> 
> pictures of the card reader installed are linked below:
> 
> http://launch.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/emax/photos/view/c009?b=6
> 
> http://launch.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/emax/photos/view/c009?b=7
> 
> now all i need is something to fill in the empty space above the card
> reader...hmm...
>