Being my Emax I HD boots from its internal, 20 mb SCSI HD just fine, I thought about going with one of these
http://www.ebay.com/itm/EMU-Ensoniq-Compact-Flash-Card-reader-recorder-sampler-SCSI-external-RW-ASR-/300878017591?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item460dba3437#ht_720wt_1676
I am hoping This (highly expensive) external unit, if set up properly, it could allow one to do away with the floppy disk system altoghether,If one could get the EMAX I to boot from it using files burned to CF card using EMXP you could say goodbye to floppies and internal hard drives (both which fail)
Now, Ted says without a Plus OS system installed and the external SCSI card reader set to SCSI ID 0 the Emax won't boot from the external SCSI device.
Hmm , I am not sure if he is referring to the fact that the 'Plus OS' has to be installed to see the 'external SCSI device) in order to boot from it or?
Right now, my Emax is with OS Emax HD SE Rev 1.1 and it boots off the internal SCSI hard drive just fine. That being said, I imagine if I hooked up the above
external SCSI CF Card reader with ID set to '0' (or perhaps even a use SCSI CD ROM with a CDROM disc burned with a PLUS OS system on it from one of the .iso disk image images
on our box or group server The Emax would boot fine as long as it goes to scan the external SCSI bus and reads the OS part of the CF card or CD.Am I dreaming here or is this possible?
Anyone have any luck booting from an external SCSI CF reader and if so, please, share how you made it happen!
Thanks
Greg
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Re: [emax] Anyone Boot Emax from an External SCSI CF reader?
2013-10-22 by Ted Summers
PLUS OS let's you see an ID other than 0. That's it. It doesn't have any affect whether said drive is internal or external, only that otherwise the only drive ever seen will be drive ID 0.
Emax firmware is set to ONLY BOOT from ID 0 or the floppy.
You can short two pins on the floppy connector to do away with it- but if you run into problems you will be taking the unit apart.On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:36 AM, <windrumscoggin@...> wrote: