Anyone install the HxC Floppy Emulator in their Emulator II+HD?

[seamonkey]

Thinking of converting the old gal into the 21st century and install the Lotharek HxC Floppy Emulator.
But I seem to recall someone posting here possible compatibility issues because of the harddrive OS.

If not, which drive do you replace? the HD?

thank you

[Deft]

There are two ways:
1 simple one - you just remove the HDD, install HXC and boot with regular os (not HD one) and it will work perfectly with remaining FDD and HXC
2 second one is complex, you need to replace ROMs, remove HDD board and replace chip.

first one works fine, but it take more time to boot - EMU need some time to understand that HDD is disconnected.

here is link for second way: http://eiiiforum.com/index.php?topic=956.0

[seamonkey]

Thank you so much for the info. I'll visit that thread when I have a bit more time.
Replacing the HD sounds much easier, especially since my HD has been acting strange since I bought it, so I just avoid using it, and use my Mac and SD.

[Gul Dukat]

Have a look of this nice tutorial by Retrosound. It helped me a lot when I did my HxC Upgrade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-kSYxOnvwQ

[Wolfram]

An EII HD is not an EII +.
Like Deft already explained you must downgrade the EPROMs if you want to have a normal working EII.
The EII HD try to boot from its HD first and boots from the floppy after xxx retries if the HD not response.

[seamonkey]

Thank you both for your comments.
Yes, I've seen Marco's video on both the EII and Emax. Looks fairly simple.

Wolfman, I'm a bit confused because Deft wrote: There are two ways:
1 simple one - you just remove the HDD, install HXC and boot with regular os (not HD one) and it will work perfectly with remaining FDD and HXC
2 second one is complex, you need to replace ROMs, remove HDD board and replace chip.

But I remember from an existing thread someone posted the eproms need to be replaced with the HD model.
Which is something I'm not prepared to do.

Thank you again