Emax

I would like to know about your internal cable kits, and if you help guide me in making a kit for my Ensoniq EPS 16 Plus (HxC floppy emulator or SCSI is fine although I think HxC is a better way to go as the SCSI in the EPS 16 plus is just plain sketchy and unrealiable.

thanks

greg

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----- Original Message -----

From: Windrum Scoggin

To: emax@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 10:50 PM

Subject: Re: [emax] Anyone Boot Emax from an External SCSI CF reader?

I have an ensoniq EPS-16 plus and would like to use the external SCSI CF reader with bit as well.

How do you know it won't work my ensoniq as well? Have you tried it with an Ensoniq?

On Tuesday, October 22, 2013, jammie wrote:

problem with that drive is it will work with the emax but its a pcd-60b and dont work with ensoniqs period

so the guy has just brought some cheap ones and says it works with lots of drives qwith out trying them

it needs to be set to scsi id0 or it wont boot

----- Original Message -----

From: windrumscoggin@...

To: emax@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 6:36 PM

Subject: [emax] Anyone Boot Emax from an External SCSI CF reader?

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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