Emax

Hi

I have a syquest external hard drive and and Iomega 100 zip drive for the 
emax II, problem is that is doesnt recognise that either one is plugged into 
the SCSI port,  the display just reads either "load bank from floppy " or " 
SCSI 1-7 not found "  any ideas on what may be wrong?

Cheers

Anth.
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There are known issues with the Zip drive and the Emax II and E-mu's 
official stance is that it's "incompatible". The Syquest drive shouldn't be 
giving you any issues, I've used everything from the 44Mb to the 230Mb 
Flyer. I currently use both a EZ135 and EZflyer230. However anything 
bigger than the 230 is probably incomaptible as well. The Emax II has 
a 540Mb partition limit.

If your Syquest drive is smaller than 230Mb then make sure it isn't set 
to SCSI ID #0 or to the same ID as your internal HD, if you have one. 
Also make sure it's connected to the Emax II with a small SCSI cab;e 
no longer than 2 feet and that the terminator plug is plugged into the 
remaining SCSI port.



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Conventional wisdom has it that zip drives just don't work with the Emax II.
I've heard you can do it, but I don't have one.  I do have a pair of 44M
Syquests, and they work just fine.
Check your cable (a good quality cable for DB25 to 50 pin SCSI is about
\ufffd30), not too long (2 feet or so - the SCSI drivers in the Emaxes are utter
crap).  Check that the drive is terminated.  There will either be a
terminator plugged into one socket on the Syquest, or it will have three
resistor packs mounted internally, near the IDC connector on the drive
itself (you'll need to have the case off the drive to check this).

If you've got an old Mac or something similar, try the drive on that.  Poke
at it with SCSITools or something, you can download them off the net.

My Emax II runs quite happily with the Syquest, and a 120M internal drive
out of a Mac IIfx.
I've had problems with active terminators.  This is probably due to the
"quality" of the Emax's SCSI chipset.

-----Original Message-----
From: anthony wilson <whoppachops@...>
To: emax@yahoogroups.com <emax@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 10:44 PM
Subject: [emax] SCSI


>Hi
>
>I have a syquest external hard drive and and Iomega 100 zip drive for the
>emax II, problem is that is doesnt recognise that either one is plugged
into

>the SCSI port,  the display just reads either "load bank from floppy " or "
>SCSI 1-7 not found "  any ideas on what may be wrong?
>
>Cheers
>
>Anth.
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If it is any help to the debate, I have been using a 250MB zip drive for
about six months and as yet no problems. My Emax is quite a late serial
number, I'm not sure if that makes any difference or not.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gordon Pearce [mailto:gordonjcp@...]
> Sent: 31 March 2001 15:51
> To: emax@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [emax] SCSI
>
>
> Conventional wisdom has it that zip drives just don't work with
> the Emax II.
> I've heard you can do it, but I don't have one.  I do have a pair of 44M
> Syquests, and they work just fine.
> Check your cable (a good quality cable for DB25 to 50 pin SCSI is about
> \ufffd30), not too long (2 feet or so - the SCSI drivers in the Emaxes
> are utter
> crap).  Check that the drive is terminated.  There will either be a
> terminator plugged into one socket on the Syquest, or it will have three
> resistor packs mounted internally, near the IDC connector on the drive
> itself (you'll need to have the case off the drive to check this).
>
> If you've got an old Mac or something similar, try the drive on
> that.  Poke
> at it with SCSITools or something, you can download them off the net.
>
> My Emax II runs quite happily with the Syquest, and a 120M internal drive
> out of a Mac IIfx.
> I've had problems with active terminators.  This is probably due to the
> "quality" of the Emax's SCSI chipset.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: anthony wilson <whoppachops@...>
> To: emax@yahoogroups.com <emax@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 10:44 PM
> Subject: [emax] SCSI
>