When I formatted a 2GB disk on my Emax-II, the format process succeeded but I got the same kind of "weird" disk size information on the display. I didn't really care, but when I started using the disk by saving banks to it (on the Emax-II itself) my Emax-II went crazy. So I don't trust these large disks formatted by the Emax-II...
In the meanwhile I have uploaded a new build of EMXP on
http://www.emxp.netThis version validates the limit of 2GB for Emax-II/Emulator-III/Emulator-IIIX file systems on hard disks in a consistent way now in all functions of EMXP. This means that disks that have been formatted by one of these samplers to a size larger than 2GB will not be accepted anymore by EMXP.
But I also removed the validation of the *physical* size limit of 2GB for a hard disk. Disks with a "factory" capacity of more than 2GB will be accepted now, but they should not have been formatted for EMU samplers to a file system size larger than 2GB.
In practice this means that you can use an 8GB SCSI disk, but after having formatted it on the Emax-II, you should do an additional logical format in EMXP to a size smaller than 2GB (actually EMXP can format an Emax-II disk to a maximum of 1 GB of available space).
Once you have done that, the disk will be accepted by both EMXP and the Emax-II.
The Emax-II can store a maximum of 100 banks on a hard disk, and each bank can have a size of maximum 8MB. So the Emax-II can not address more than 800MB of sound bank space on a hard disk. As a consequence formatting a hard disk to sizes larger than 1GB does not really make sense, hence the max. supported format size of 1GB by EMXP.
By the way: my email address is actually mentioned in the reference manual (page 11) but the easiest way to find it is simply by looking at the main menu screen of EMXP: it's mentioned on the first (top) line of that screen ;-)