Emax II + E6400 + CF card reader = Awesome!
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 4:00 amI picked up a CF card reader from SCSIforSamplers.com:
http://www.scsiforsamplers.com/cfcard.asp
I own 2 Emax II's (1 x 8mb Rack and 1 x 1mb Keyboard) and an e6400 (128mb).
I couldn't afford 3 card readers at the moment but, I do have a few SCSI enclosures that I wasn't using so, I decided I would buy one card reader and install it in the enclosure myself. JD at SCSIforSamplers was very helpful and answered all my questions very quickly. After the card reader was installed, I had a few problems formatting the CF card on the Emax II but, soon came to the conclusion that it must be the card itself. After digging through the Emax/EOA archives a bit I noticed that a few people mentioned that the CF card needed to be somewhat specific. Since the original Emax II HD is 540mb's, I figured I would need to find a smaller card (although finding cards under 1GB is not that easy these days unless you go online to find them). I ended up going to several computer stores in Toronto and was laughed at by most computer store employees because they could not understand why i would be searching for something so obsolete. I finally found 1 place that had a 128MB Apacer CF card. The guy sold it to me for $5 tax in. Later that day I found a few 512MB generic cards for $5 a piece as well (although I knew they probably would not work). All the cards I have seem to work fine on the e6400 but not the Emax II. Only the Apacer 128mb seems to format/read/write OK. I have a friend bringing me a 512mb SanDisk to work tomorrow. My goal was to create Emax II format cards as the e6400 can also read this format. Now what I have done is connected the card reader to a DB25 switch box and I can now create Emax II samples and flip the switch and load them into either the e6400 or the other Emax II. I also have HD's in each of the machines and a Zip drive in the mix (although I have had my share of HD's and Zips die over the years so, I think the more backup I can have the better (and the CF card is silent which is another bonus!)). As well, I have card readers for both my Mac and PC so the next step I guess is to dump some of my Emax archives onto the card using EMXP.
So far my opinion of the Card Reader is that it is totally worth the money. The real tricky part is finding the compatible media for them!
http://www.scsiforsamplers.com/cfcard.asp
I own 2 Emax II's (1 x 8mb Rack and 1 x 1mb Keyboard) and an e6400 (128mb).
I couldn't afford 3 card readers at the moment but, I do have a few SCSI enclosures that I wasn't using so, I decided I would buy one card reader and install it in the enclosure myself. JD at SCSIforSamplers was very helpful and answered all my questions very quickly. After the card reader was installed, I had a few problems formatting the CF card on the Emax II but, soon came to the conclusion that it must be the card itself. After digging through the Emax/EOA archives a bit I noticed that a few people mentioned that the CF card needed to be somewhat specific. Since the original Emax II HD is 540mb's, I figured I would need to find a smaller card (although finding cards under 1GB is not that easy these days unless you go online to find them). I ended up going to several computer stores in Toronto and was laughed at by most computer store employees because they could not understand why i would be searching for something so obsolete. I finally found 1 place that had a 128MB Apacer CF card. The guy sold it to me for $5 tax in. Later that day I found a few 512MB generic cards for $5 a piece as well (although I knew they probably would not work). All the cards I have seem to work fine on the e6400 but not the Emax II. Only the Apacer 128mb seems to format/read/write OK. I have a friend bringing me a 512mb SanDisk to work tomorrow. My goal was to create Emax II format cards as the e6400 can also read this format. Now what I have done is connected the card reader to a DB25 switch box and I can now create Emax II samples and flip the switch and load them into either the e6400 or the other Emax II. I also have HD's in each of the machines and a Zip drive in the mix (although I have had my share of HD's and Zips die over the years so, I think the more backup I can have the better (and the CF card is silent which is another bonus!)). As well, I have card readers for both my Mac and PC so the next step I guess is to dump some of my Emax archives onto the card using EMXP.
So far my opinion of the Card Reader is that it is totally worth the money. The real tricky part is finding the compatible media for them!