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I believe the Emulator II+ HD software will always check for the presence of a hard drive. You may need to use a boot disk for a standard Emulator II or Emulator II+ to eliminate any functions pertaining to the hard drive.


--- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "Adam" <fake@...> wrote:
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> Ok, this is the strangest error. Almost everyone i talked to were betting on hard disk failure. It is a user failure as you'll see soon :)
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> My EIIHD's 20 pin ribbon is not marked for some reason. I put it back in the wrong way while i was replacing the LCD. 
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> I realised it during my last attempt, when i wanted to remove the HD: i wanted to see what makes bypass the HD checking during boot, and realized, that it still would try formatting the HD when the 20 pin ribbon was not even connected. I turned it over and lookie...a totally error free 20MB miniscribe is back. Not my content though, because it really tried to format it and it had success partly.
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> Though i am not sure i want to use the HD as it is noisy and stuff, and now i made the HxC beautifully run. If anyone knew how to bypass HD check at the start, please let me know!
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> thanks!
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> --- In emulatorII-list@yahoogroups.com, "Adam" <fake@> wrote:
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> > I've received a 3.1 HD boot disk to my EII+ HD (big big thanks to Brandt!) but there's something wrong still. I've tried to format the disk (Catalog, 22) and it says "Hard Disk Err 03".
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> > Anyone know this error?
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> > There's also a HD TEST menu (20), but i have no idea how it supposed to work.
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> > Obviously i would not hunt for a new Miniscribe HD until i figured out it is really the HD.
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> > Any help appreciated!
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