Emax

It's a No-Go.   This is odd, I did this before like 3 times.....I've been reading long and dunno what happened.  I'm even gonna update the firmware on the SCSi-IDE Bridge, which I heard helped someone, but i the past this wasnt an issue.

Any other tip?

Paul

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "esynthesist" <esynthesist@...> wrote:
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> Physically formatting a disk on a PC for use in the Emax-II is not possible.
> But there's a work around which doesn't require the CF card to be formatted by the Emax-II at all and still results in a disk which will be accepted by the Emax-II (so no "Not Emax2 Disk" error).
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> You could try this:
> 1/ Create a blank hard disk image for Emax-II in EMXP (menu 1.5.3). Select the 96MB image size
> 2/ Add the Emax-II OS and your banks to this image (menu 1.4...3 and menu 1.1...4)
> 3/ Write this image to your 128MB CF card on your PC, e.g. with a USB CF card adapter (menu 1.5.1...3)
> PS: make sure to use EMXP version 2.07.5 !
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> This *could* work.
> The trick is that the hard disk image written to the unformatted disk should be *smaller* than the disk's actual capacity. I have to find out still how much the size gap should be at minimum. I know this information is coded somewhere in the filesystem, so I should be able to reverse engineer it in the near future...
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> Anyway I just tested the approach with a 96MB image on a 1GB CF card and that works fine... but I admit that this is quite a big size gap :)
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> Perhaps you can let us know if it also works with a 96MB image on a 128MB card ?
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> ///E-Synthesist
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> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "PaulD" <pauldays1@> wrote:
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> > Well, for some reason I lost the CF card I had my banks in.   And  remember in the past, and I even checked the old post...that I did copy the OS and banks to a CF card via EMXP.   Now I did the same steps on a new card....128mb Kodak CF and the emax reads Not EMAX2 disk, and I cannot format it in the EMAX II.   Never could.
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> > So... what are my options?  anybody sorted the Format Emax II using our PCs?
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> > What can I do....
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> > Paul
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