Emax

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>       1. Re:Using a Zip drive with a sampler ..    ?
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>    Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 20:40:37 EST
>    From: vornfklorb@...
> Subject: Re:Using a Zip drive with a sampler ..    ?
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> I got a zip about 2 months ago, and it works great with my Emax II.  And
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> powers down.  I knew it would load samples way quicker than from floppies,
> but what I didn't expect was that it loads at least 3 times faster than
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> approx. 50 meg seagate hard drive that I have in it.  Now I boot from the
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> exclusively.  No problems at all so far.
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I've been using a 100Meg Zip with my EmaxII for about 3 years and have had
no problems.  I read in the manual that you shouldn't use a removable media
drive to boot from so I've been booting from floppy.  Does anyone know why
it's supposed to be bad to boot from a removable media drive?

Steve