Emax

Hi!

The disks are absolutely new. Just opened them before using.

I happen to be a customer of you too, so i do have Translator (Version 2.9 build 123).
I inserted the Max 1 (not to confuse it with Phase 1 which is made for the EIIIx series), then
Create Virtual Drive -> New. The IMG file it made was readable with Disk Utility for OS-X 10.6.5. So i burned a CD.

Then i checked it with EMXP, but EMXP didn't recognize it.

i am pretty tired now :(



--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, Garth Hjelte <garth@...> wrote:
>
> At 02:37 PM 8/13/2011, you wrote:
> 
> >Northstar confirmed there are no copy protection on their MAX1-2-3 CD's.
> >They say, the problem is that i don't have a compatible CDrom for the Emax II.
> 
> >But:
> >-My EIIIXP can import the original Elements of Sound EMAX CD, but 
> >fails to import the Northstar CDs
> >-3 macs (Toast, Disk util) and 1 pc (Nero, Isobuster) claimed that 
> >the discs have read errors on them. Most of the time they can't even 
> >access the disks: it starts to spin up, then spin down, and doing it 
> >in an infinite circle.
> >I am pretty sure the discs are not OK.
> >BTW i would buy an EMAX compatibly CD-Rom,but it is almost 
> >impossible. I am sure, that even if i did so, it would not read those disc.
> >I wish they were generous and sent me the image files via net. After 
> >all, these CDs are expensive!
> 
> Are there scratches on your CD? Any indication of damage?
> 
> Translator www.chickensys.com can make images (we call them Virtual 
> Drives) and is very forgiving with disk read errors. Most "imagers" 
> stop and abort when they find an error and don't allow you to make 
> the whole image, even though there is valid data further downstream 
> on the disk. Translator was designed to get as much as it can off the 
> disk. With sampler CD's, mot of the disk space is filled with audio 
> info, so any errors there manifest themselves as glitches in the 
> audio, which can be repaired or covered over.
> 
> Emu CD's really only need the first 512 bytes of the disk to make it 
> valid. The FAT comes next, then the bank directory is about 4000 
> bytes into the disk and doesn't take that much space. So you really 
> have to wipe out that area to make the disk unreadable.
> 
> The older versions of Translator had a Emu Disk Repairer of sorts 
> that would look through a disk even though the boot sectors and/or 
> Bank directory and find Banks throughout the disk and export them 
> out. I'm fairly sure it worked on E3/ESi/EOS but not Emax.
> 
> Anyway, if you are interested in that, let me know. Or regarding the 
> Phase III CD, I can perhaps repair it for you. Contact me at support 
> _AT_ chickensys.com.
> 
> Garth Hjelte
> Sampler User
>