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Emulator II+HD - getting a hard drive going

2002-04-20 by Rob EmuArc

Hi,
If you have an EII+HD with a hard drive that doesn't work, here is the way
to sort it out.

Buy a refurbished Miniscribe 8425 MFM drive from CCD Drives at
http://www.ccsdrives.com/. It will cost around US 75 - 100 dollars. It is an
exact replacement. Ensure you have a copy of OS 3.1 HD on floppy diskette
(we can send you one for free). Then make a note of the error list on the
side of the new drive, its on a piece of paper attached to the drive.
Install the new hard drive and boot up OS 3.1 HD from floppy. Using SPECIAL
19 enter the new error list and save to floppy. Then format the hard disk
with SPECIAL 22. A few minutes later you will have a new working hard drive
ready for loading with all your cool samples.

Unfortuantely if you don't have a hard drive already installed there is no
way you can retrofit one. The Adaptec interface is still about but the E-mu
SCSI interface is obsolete - although recreatable.

Happy Emulating!
Rob

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