Emax

Hi Scott:

I do not know for certain whether the Emax's internal 50-pin SCSI connection is working correctly. When I received this machine, the internal hard drive was dead and the Emax would not boot from it.

That said, the PCD 50B does seem to respond when I try to format a card. The green light on the front lights up when the formatting begins. The problem is that the formatting never finishes.

Best,
DBM


--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, Scott Stanley <scartattack@...> wrote:
>
> Have you verified that your SCSI port still works with any drive?  That
> would at least tell you if it is drive or sampler related.
> 
> -s*
> 
> On 2011-11-20, at 9:03 PM, ditabeardmemo <brandt@...> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> I recently picked up an Emax SE HD keyboard with the intention of
> installing a slim floppy and PCD 50B, as the original internal Miniscribe
> hard drive was dead. I installed the PCD 50B, but I can't get it to
> correctly format a Compact Flash card. Every time it produces an "HD Format
> Error" or freezes on "Formatting HD..." indefinitely. In one case, the unit
> froze while it was saving a bank to the formatted disk.
> 
> Here is what I've checked thus far:
> 
> 1. The machine boots normally from a floppy disk with the PCD 50B
> installed, and all functions appear to work.
> 
> 2. When formatting, I tried a floppy disk with the Plus OS 4.0 (from
> E-Synthesist's Web site) and an original HD OS 1.1 that came with the unit.
> 
> 3. I tried to format a SanDisk 512 MB card (connected via a PCMCIA adapter)
> and a SanDisk D2 Flashdisk 20 MB card, but neither worked.
> 
> 4. I confirmed that the SCSI cable has data line 1 (red stripe) lined up
> with pin 1 on the PCD 50B.
> 
> 5. The only jumper on the PCD 50B is for termination. I have all other
> jumpers removed. This means the device is set to SCSI ID 0 and "Write
> Protect" is off.
> 
> I'm out of ideas for what to try next. Any thoughts?
> 
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> 
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