Emax

So can anyone mail me/sell me an emax plus upgrade disk?  A floppy would work...or even better a zip 100 disk if that's possible.  

Thanks!
RJ

nevermind, I was able to create my own.

Anybody know why I have to keep my original floppy drive in my emax along
with the scsi zip drive?

It loads up the OS from the zip drive only if the floppy drive is also
connected....otherwise it gets stuck at the diagnostics...






On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:10 PM, leavesstillgreen
<errorspending@...>wrote:

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> So can anyone mail me/sell me an emax plus upgrade disk? A floppy would
> work...or even better a zip 100 disk if that's possible.
>
> Thanks!
> RJ
>
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that is by design. it expects the floppy to be there.

On Mar 16, 2010, at 11:27 PM, RJ wrote:

nevermind, I was able to create my own.

Anybody know why I have to keep my original floppy drive in my emax  
along
with the scsi zip drive?

It loads up the OS from the zip drive only if the floppy drive is also
connected....otherwise it gets stuck at the diagnostics...






On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:10 PM, leavesstillgreen
<errorspending@...>wrote:

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>
> So can anyone mail me/sell me an emax plus upgrade disk? A floppy  
> would
> work...or even better a zip 100 disk if that's possible.
>
> Thanks!
> RJ
>
>
>


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Ah, yes but you can fool the Emax into thinking a floppy drive is present.

From my past post:

"You can jumper pins 25/26 on the floppy drive connector on the motherboard
(it's the /TRK0 sense pin which tells the Emax the drive head is on Track
0). Once you do this, you'll be able to boot the Emax with no floppy drive
attached."

-Dave

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Ted Summers <djtbs1@...> wrote:

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Hey all....I was out of stock on the 2010 Emax 1 /SE/HD and EMAX 2 floppy drives for sometime but I now have them available agian.
Stacy at  www.route66studios.com 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dave Sotnick 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 11:43 AM
  Subject: Re: [emax] Emax Plus


    
  Ah, yes but you can fool the Emax into thinking a floppy drive is present.

  From my past post:

  "You can jumper pins 25/26 on the floppy drive connector on the motherboard
  (it's the /TRK0 sense pin which tells the Emax the drive head is on Track
  0). Once you do this, you'll be able to boot the Emax with no floppy drive
  attached."

  -Dave

  On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Ted Summers <djtbs1@...> wrote:

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  > that is by design. it expects the floppy to be there.
  >

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Time to open it up for a third time... aaargh!

I've read the zip drive can be too much for the Emax PSU to handle.  Is this
true even if I don't have the floppy drive and hard drive connected?







On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Dave Sotnick <sotnickd@...> wrote:

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>
> Ah, yes but you can fool the Emax into thinking a floppy drive is present.
>
> From my past post:
>
> "You can jumper pins 25/26 on the floppy drive connector on the motherboard
> (it's the /TRK0 sense pin which tells the Emax the drive head is on Track
> 0). Once you do this, you'll be able to boot the Emax with no floppy drive
> attached."
>
> -Dave
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Ted Summers <djtbs1@...<djtbs1%40gmail.com>>
> wrote:
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> >
> > that is by design. it expects the floppy to be there.
> >
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The zip drive uses less power than a hard drive. I ran my Emax with a Zip
and no floppy for a year or so with no ill effects. Still using the original
power supply.

-Dave

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:16 AM, RJ <errorspending@...> wrote:

> Time to open it up for a third time... aaargh!
>
> I've read the zip drive can be too much for the Emax PSU to handle.  Is
> this
> true even if I don't have the floppy drive and hard drive connected?
>
>


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