Emax

scratch that i was looking at the wrong set of pictures that is a pcd-50b

try a internal terminator on the 50pin scsi idc cable to see if the pcd-50 term is working

do you know if the firmware has been st to the 1 that ted has as that is the correct read and write os

you might only have a read only drive where did you get it from



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: jack 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 5:44 PM
  Subject: Re: [emax] Re: Emax/PCD 50B Installation Problems


    
  thats your mistake that drive ted uses is not the pcd -50b

  it a totally different drive its a spyrus 300 with 2 pcmcia card slots and can run on 2 scsi ids

  as it does this with term switching ic instead of the luns like on the pcd-50b

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: ditabeardmemo 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 4:51 PM
  Subject: [emax] Re: Emax/PCD 50B Installation Problems

  I thought the same thing at first, but I have the termination jumper set exactly like this photo from Ted's Web site:

  http://tinyurl.com/7yzht4k

  SCSI ID 0, termination on, write protect off.

  --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "jack" <jammie.emma@...> wrote:
  >
  > thats usually a termination problem 
  > ----- Original Message ----- 
  > From: ditabeardmemo 
  > To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  > Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 2:03 AM
  > Subject: [emax] Emax/PCD 50B Installation Problems
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > 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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