I have successfully used TEAC, Mitsumi, and SONY floppy drives to write Emax disks.
My PC mobo is an MSI with Intel Pentium 4 2.66 Ghz
But it shouldn't be the motherboard itself, honestly because I have also used a mobo with a Via CPU (the chipset maker, not even AMD!!!) and the DOS programs worked fine and wrote the Emax disks....
now whether that combo would have worked with EMXP I couldn't know....
Did you try the dos route I suggested before?
format the DSDD in Emax
using dos 6.22 exe create that 1.44MB floppy
Verify computer boots to dos
go back to windows and remove extra dos files so there is enough space (remove like deltree, attrib,etc leaving only the files I specified in that other mail).
and put the files (EMX, EMAXUTIL, PLUS OS - only the unzipped ones not the zips) there on drive A: on HD floppy disk.
it means that your emax is formating wrong or has mis alligned headsi had this with another customer who brought a keyboard from me with a new slim floppyand he had another emax with an old floppy the new floppy could not read the os or sample disksand the old floppy in his other machine could not read the new floppy disks from the new floppy on the other machinealso are you using dsdd or hddd floppy disks----- Original Message -----From: windrumscoggin@...Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 5:59 PMSubject: [emax] EMXP just NOT working
Error code 89!
'The capacity of the disk in drive A is not supported by Emax samplers!
Oh
Really!?, I just formatted the disk on my Emax!
Hi
I am not sure my problem is with the FD disks I am using or with WinXP or simply a bad FDD issue (really, tried four different floppy disk drives) or an EMXP motherboard incompatibility but
It just ain't working..not with Floppy disks, my internal ZIP disk, or Flash cards either.
In using FD's marked HD on the upper right of the disk I get all kinds of errors.
DSDD disks just don't work either. EMXP can't see em, even if they were previously formatted in my Emax I HD running SE rev1.1
I also installed and tried 4 different floppies drives on two different winXP machines and keep getting errors in EMXP even though the Emax HD I own formats them just fine as does OmniFlop (with Omniflop drivers installed, of course).
For example I will format the floppy disk in OmniFlop and install an OS from the usergroup on the disk.
All goes well.
I then open EMXP
Click
1) Manage Emax images
7) Manage Emax floppy disks
Enter the drive letter as 'A'
3) Manage OS on floppy disk
(Since OmniFlop just formatted the disk with the 'plus OS' and it tested out fine-tries this with an Emax formatted disk too)
EMXP Says 'enter a DSDD disk'
I do
It. Whirs and reads the disk
EMXP then Says "the disk in drive A does not contain a valid EMAX Operating System.
Press any key to continue or escape to abort these warnings...."
I hit 'enter'
EMXP says
'Error Code 206! No OS found!
Really? Why?
How?
I tried this routine with a formatted disk from OmniFlop as well as a disk I formatted in the Emax.
When I insert the Emax formatted disk and try to read the OS in EMXP I get
A windows dialog box that reads
"emxpn.exe the disk in drive A is not formatted properly please check the disk and reformat if necessary"
I then uninstalled then reinstalled The latest OmniFlop disk driver 3.0b and controller driver in both machines (via Control Panel) and ran a 'test disk' procedure in OmniFlop using the above previously formatted Emax FD's and OmniFlop formatted FD's and The OmniFlop 'test' Wizard results were successful stating
"Format recognized"
I then use same disk within EMXP to try and
Upgrade the OS to a 'Plus OS' downloaded off our yahoo user group and placed into the OS folder of EMXP in the C:/ root directory
And again get same errors.
I give up
I can't win for losing and this has taken three days off my life just to build the XP machines, install winXP, swap FDD's out and work these routines.
After all of this, I am still unable to get the EMXP program to work in WinXP 32 bit
In the end, I can't update to a PlusOs disk so that I can upgrade the OS in my Emax and then finally see External SCSI drives
Also, without EMXP working I cannot download and transfer user group sound libraries onto a zip or flash card as EMXP won't see the either!
I am thinking this could be a hardware issue somewhere and am wondering if Jammie or Ted or Esynthesist could give me their machine specs right on down to the type of FDD and motherboard used so I can build me a damned box that will work with this program. Any help in getting EMXP to work is greatly appreciated.
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