Emax

How do I install an internal terminator on the cable? I re-used the original 50 pin SCSI cable from the Emax's internal hard drive.

I don't know what firmware version is on the PCD 50B, but I hope to install it in a PC this week to find out. I purchased the drive new directly from the psism.com Web site about a month and a half ago.


--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "jack" <jammie.emma@...> wrote:
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> scratch that i was looking at the wrong set of pictures that is a pcd-50b
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> try a internal terminator on the 50pin scsi idc cable to see if the pcd-50 term is working
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> do you know if the firmware has been st to the 1 that ted has as that is the correct read and write os
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> you might only have a read only drive where did you get it from
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>   ----- 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
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> 
>     
>   thats your mistake that drive ted uses is not the pcd -50b
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>   it a totally different drive its a spyrus 300 with 2 pcmcia card slots and can run on 2 scsi ids
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>   as it does this with term switching ic instead of the luns like on the pcd-50b
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>   ----- 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:
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>   http://tinyurl.com/7yzht4k
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>   SCSI ID 0, termination on, write protect off.
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>   --- 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.
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>   > Here is what I've checked thus far:
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>   > 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.
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>   > 4. I confirmed that the SCSI cable has data line 1 (red stripe) lined up with pin 1 on the PCD 50B.
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>   > 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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