Emax

This 540MB limit is a well known fact... but I have seen Emax-II disks formatted with sizes larger than this.
One of those images had a size of 632 MB, which was a surprise to me.
Anyway I made the partition settings of that disk available in EMXP a while ago. So you're able now to create an empty 632MB image with EMXP, filling it with banks and then copying this image to a CDROM which can be used on the Emax-II.
The EMAX-II seems not to have any problems with this CDROM.
The same can probably be accomplished on flash cards (by putting this image on a 1GB card instead of a CDROM).

Anyway, if anyone succeeds in formatting flash disks of 1 GB or larger, and the available size for Emax seems to be more than the maximum I have see so far (632 MB), I (and other Emax-II users) would appreciate it if you contact me. It would allow me to add larger format sizes to EMXP.

///E-Synthesist

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, john@... wrote:
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> Sorry but this is incorrect. The HD partition limit of the Emax II is a set 540 mb. This is regardless of the drive's size or the amount of memory your unit has.
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> Telling how much space you have left is as simple as looking at the drive through the SCSI select tool if I remember right.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tu@...
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> Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:24:17 
> To: <emax@yahoogroups.com>; Rei<vjrei@...>
> Subject: Re: [emax] On an Emax II, how do I know how much memory I have in a scsi drive?
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> I am not sure where you get the idea there is a 20MB limit on the Emax II drive size. The Emax I  
> HD model had a 20MB internal hard disk but as far as I know the smallest internal hard disk the 
> Emax II ever shipped with was 40MB. 
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> The main limitation for the Emax II that a hard disk can only contain a maximum of 100 banks. So 
> an 8MB Emax II can theoretically store a maximum of 800MB of data if all the banks were 
> completely full. But the factory library banks are of variable size and usually do not even come 
> close to filling 8MB. 
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> Of course if you have less than 8MB of RAM in your Emax II then the maximum amount of data 
> that can be stored on the hard disk will be proportionally less, ie 200MB with 2MB RAM, 400MB with 
> 4MB RAM etc. 
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> I cannot confirm the exact maximum drive size limit, perhaps someone else can, but I think a 
> 512MB CF card should be fine for general use. 
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> /Tristan
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> Quoting Rei <vjrei@...>:
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> > I just installed successfully one of the flash media cards from scsi
> > for samplers.
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> > Now, in theory the Emax II format up to 20 MB with flash cards, but I
> > have hearded that with regular hard drive is around 650MB.
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> > Any way, how can I confirm that?
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> > Thanx
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