Emax

dont put a floppy disk in the floppy drive if you do put a bootable disk it will always boot from floppy first
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gary 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 5:19 AM
  Subject: [emax] Re: booting emax from hd


    
  Did you ever get a solution to this?

  --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "esynthesist" wrote:
  >
  > The problem below has probably been posted here before, but the 
  > search engine on the yahoo groups seems not to scan older messages 
  > anymore, so I thought I'm "allowed" give it another try:
  > 
  > I just connected a hard disk to my Emax Plus Rack. Except for the 
  > floppy drive, no other hard drive is connected to the Emax. The SCSI 
  > ID of the HD is set to 0.
  > The problem is: the Emax only wants to boot from the floppy. Once 
  > this is done, it recognizes the HD on SCSI ID O and I can load/unload 
  > banks from it. The HD also contains the Plus operating system: it has 
  > been formatted by the Emax and I performed an additional "copy 
  > software" just to be sure...
  > 
  > Now I read about this "cheat" of the floppy connector on the 
  > motherboard (jumper between pins 25 and 26).
  > But that's mainly used for replacing the floppy drive by an internal 
  > ZIP drive and making sure that the Emax still thinks a floppy drive 
  > is connected. That's not what I want.
  > 
  > Bottom line: I don't understand this boot issue with the Emax. In the 
  > original documentation of Emu, it seemed perfectly possible to have 
  > an Emax with both an internal HD and a floppy drive. When booting, 
  > the Emax should first check the floppy drive; if no floppy disk is 
  > found, the Emax should boot from the HD on SCSI ID 0.
  > It doesn't do that on mine, it doesn't even check the SCSI chain, it 
  > immediately asks to insert a disk.
  > 
  > So what do you think I'm doing wrong ?
  > 
  > Thanks
  > 
  > ///E-Synthesist
  >



  

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