Emax

I apologize in advance if this sounds obvious, but are you booting off
another ZIP when trying to format the ZIP on the Emax II?

The reason I ask is because the "Disk Not Formatted" message sounds
suspiciously like the Emax is trying to load the "format disk"
software module from SCSI, and then realizing the ZIP isn't formatted.

Have you tried booting from the Floppy first, (with the ZIP already in
the drive), and then tried formatting making sure the software is
being loaded from floppy?

-Dave

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Phreak boy <gertie01@...> wrote:
> Hi there
> thank you for your help
> the zip drive is fine, i can load samples into another sampler using it. I
> can format zips with it using the other sampler. Its one of those iomega 100
> blue ones which reads 100mb zip files....I have been using new zip disks. i
> guess if it works on one sampler, it should work on another...no other scsi
> devicdes are being used
> does anyone know a way of formatting an emax II zip on a pc?
>
> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "s*" <scartattack@...> wrote:
>>
>> What model of Zip drive is it? Is the write protect enabled on the Zip
>> disk? Is the Zip drive terminated? Is there more than one device enabled
>> with the same SCSI ID#? Could the Zip disk be corrupted?
>>
>> Zip drives are known to die from time to time so, there is the possibility
>> that the heads have been damaged even though the Emax sees the device.
>>
>> -s*
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Phreak boy <gertie01@...> wrote:
>>
>> > hello, does anyone know how i can format a zip file on the pc for an
>> > emax II? My emax II can see my iomega zip drive and can read the size of
>> > it...but when i try to format it it says...Drive Not Formatted...any
>> > ideas?
>> > also worst case scenario...is it possible to format it using some
>> > software
>> > on the pc...as i would like to use emxp..and i think that only read and
>> > writes zip drives..doesnt format them
>> >
>> > thanks a lot!
>> >
>> >
>> >
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