Emax

I have the same problem with my rack unit.
It's your floppy drive, it is on it's way out.
If I take the HD out of the rack, and put it in my keyboard, it will boot from the HD, but if I put the floppy from the rack into the keyboard, the keyboard will not boot from the hard drive.
If I jumper pins 25/26, then the rack will boot from the HD.

Dave

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "jammie"  wrote:
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> 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
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>   Did you ever get a solution to this?
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>   --- 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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