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2009-03-09 by Rei
I just installed successfully one of the flash media cards from scsi for samplers. Now, in theory the Emax II format up to 20 MB with flash cards, but I have hearded that with regular hard drive is around 650MB. Any way, how can I confirm that? Thanx
2009-03-09 by tu@...
I am not sure where you get the idea there is a 20MB limit on the Emax II drive size. The Emax I HD model had a 20MB internal hard disk but as far as I know the smallest internal hard disk the Emax II ever shipped with was 40MB. The main limitation for the Emax II that a hard disk can only contain a maximum of 100 banks. So an 8MB Emax II can theoretically store a maximum of 800MB of data if all the banks were completely full. But the factory library banks are of variable size and usually do not even come close to filling 8MB. Of course if you have less than 8MB of RAM in your Emax II then the maximum amount of data that can be stored on the hard disk will be proportionally less, ie 200MB with 2MB RAM, 400MB with 4MB RAM etc. I cannot confirm the exact maximum drive size limit, perhaps someone else can, but I think a 512MB CF card should be fine for general use. /Tristan Quoting Rei <vjrei@...>:
> I just installed successfully one of the flash media cards from scsi > for samplers. > > Now, in theory the Emax II format up to 20 MB with flash cards, but I > have hearded that with regular hard drive is around 650MB. > > Any way, how can I confirm that? > > Thanx > > > > >
2009-03-09 by john@...
Sorry but this is incorrect. The HD partition limit of the Emax II is a set 540 mb. This is regardless of the drive's size or the amount of memory your unit has. Telling how much space you have left is as simple as looking at the drive through the SCSI select tool if I remember right. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
-----Original Message----- From: tu@alphalink.com.au Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:24:17 To: <emax@yahoogroups.com>; Rei<vjrei@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [emax] On an Emax II, how do I know how much memory I have in a scsi drive? I am not sure where you get the idea there is a 20MB limit on the Emax II drive size. The Emax I HD model had a 20MB internal hard disk but as far as I know the smallest internal hard disk the Emax II ever shipped with was 40MB. The main limitation for the Emax II that a hard disk can only contain a maximum of 100 banks. So an 8MB Emax II can theoretically store a maximum of 800MB of data if all the banks were completely full. But the factory library banks are of variable size and usually do not even come close to filling 8MB. Of course if you have less than 8MB of RAM in your Emax II then the maximum amount of data that can be stored on the hard disk will be proportionally less, ie 200MB with 2MB RAM, 400MB with 4MB RAM etc. I cannot confirm the exact maximum drive size limit, perhaps someone else can, but I think a 512MB CF card should be fine for general use. /Tristan Quoting Rei <vjrei@yahoo.com>: > I just installed successfully one of the flash media cards from scsi > for samplers. > > Now, in theory the Emax II format up to 20 MB with flash cards, but I > have hearded that with regular hard drive is around 650MB. > > Any way, how can I confirm that? > > Thanx > > > > > ------------------------------------ Emax and Emax II User's Group Website http://www.silveriafamily.comYahoo! Groups Links
2009-03-12 by esynthesist
This 540MB limit is a well known fact... but I have seen Emax-II disks formatted with sizes larger than this. One of those images had a size of 632 MB, which was a surprise to me. Anyway I made the partition settings of that disk available in EMXP a while ago. So you're able now to create an empty 632MB image with EMXP, filling it with banks and then copying this image to a CDROM which can be used on the Emax-II. The EMAX-II seems not to have any problems with this CDROM. The same can probably be accomplished on flash cards (by putting this image on a 1GB card instead of a CDROM). Anyway, if anyone succeeds in formatting flash disks of 1 GB or larger, and the available size for Emax seems to be more than the maximum I have see so far (632 MB), I (and other Emax-II users) would appreciate it if you contact me. It would allow me to add larger format sizes to EMXP. ///E-Synthesist --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, john@... wrote:
> > Sorry but this is incorrect. The HD partition limit of the Emax II is a set 540 mb. This is regardless of the drive's size or the amount of memory your unit has. > > Telling how much space you have left is as simple as looking at the drive through the SCSI select tool if I remember right. > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T > > -----Original Message----- > From: tu@... > > Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:24:17 > To: <emax@yahoogroups.com>; Rei<vjrei@...> > Subject: Re: [emax] On an Emax II, how do I know how much memory I have in a scsi drive? > > > I am not sure where you get the idea there is a 20MB limit on the Emax II drive size. The Emax I > HD model had a 20MB internal hard disk but as far as I know the smallest internal hard disk the > Emax II ever shipped with was 40MB. > > The main limitation for the Emax II that a hard disk can only contain a maximum of 100 banks. So > an 8MB Emax II can theoretically store a maximum of 800MB of data if all the banks were > completely full. But the factory library banks are of variable size and usually do not even come > close to filling 8MB. > > Of course if you have less than 8MB of RAM in your Emax II then the maximum amount of data > that can be stored on the hard disk will be proportionally less, ie 200MB with 2MB RAM, 400MB with > 4MB RAM etc. > > I cannot confirm the exact maximum drive size limit, perhaps someone else can, but I think a > 512MB CF card should be fine for general use. > > /Tristan > > Quoting Rei <vjrei@...>: > > > I just installed successfully one of the flash media cards from scsi > > for samplers. > > > > Now, in theory the Emax II format up to 20 MB with flash cards, but I > > have hearded that with regular hard drive is around 650MB. > > > > Any way, how can I confirm that? > > > > Thanx > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Emax and Emax II User's Group Website > > http://www.silveriafamily.comYahoo! Groups Links >