OS lesson learned the hard way...

[alphabyte]

I learned from a foolish error today; the EIIIx OS is not copied when a disk is formatted. Long story short, last week I formatted the internal HD to make room for some banks I extracted from an old CD-ROM. Being a long time Emax user, I decided to just figure things out on my own as the navigation isn't that much different. I didn't feel the need to run through the EIIIx manual.

When I went to boot up today, the EIIIx just kept cycling through SCSI IDs. No boot! After my initial bout of swearing and disbelief, I tried out one of the many "backup" floppies I made. Nothing! OS isn't copied to them either, they are simple formatted.

Thanked God verbally for those who created the necessary tools (EMXP and OmniFlop) to get the OS onto one of the floppies. Needless to say, the OS has now been copied to all EIIIx disks I have including a dozen floppies and a few Zip disks just in case ;-)

[dr.c]

Its even worse than this and it will learn you the first and absolute rule to be followed : "RTFM"

Unfortunately, the complete machine calibration went away as well. Every machine is different, therefore all OS are different. They have yet a common trunck, but the calibrations are saved into the OS, diffrerent from an OS to another, depending to wich machine they "belong". You have to recalibrate your machines.

Oh... "RTFM"... I forgot, it means : Read The Fucking Manual !

 

[alphabyte]

Been around long enough to know what "RTFM" means 

It is always helpful advice.