Emax

there is no cheap cf drives doing it your self is the cheapest option buy an acard 720u scsi to ide adapter

and a ide to cf adapter 32mb cf cards are £3-5 so yes they are as cheap as zip disks

plus get a slimfloppy from ted as its easier to format the cf this way
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: RJ Kaufman 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 12:34 AM
  Subject: Re: [emax] Emax Zip Drive


    
  So what's a cheap good cf drive you can recommend. Are the flash cards 
  as cheap as zip disks?

  On Feb 26, 2010, at 9:24 PM, Dave Sotnick <sotnickd@...> wrote:

  > With the Emax I you must use a ZIP drive that can be set to SCSI ID 
  > 0. All
  > external ZIP drives I have come across can only be set to SCSI ID 5 
  > or 6.
  >
  > While Compact Flash (CF) is a better option, if you're going to use 
  > ZIP
  > drives, you'll need an INTERNAL SCSI ZIP drive, since they have 
  > jumpers that
  > you can set to any SCSI ID (all jumpers off/open sets the drive to the
  > required ID 0).
  >
  > Hope that helps,
  > Dave
  >
  > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:50 PM, leavesstillgreen
  > <errorspending@...>wrote:
  >
  >>
  >>
  >> So, my miniscribe hard drive broken in my Emax. I'd like to replace 
  >> it with
  >> an external zip drive.
  >> Can I just buy any SCSI zip drive off ebay and hook it up?
  >>
  >> I haven't found any good instructions for this yet.
  >>
  >>
  >>
  >
  >
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  >
  >
  >
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