Re: Vulcan drive info

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca> wrote in message
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> Louis Cornelio wrote:
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> > Anyone have any experience with Vulcan drives? They are IDE right?  It
> > seems to fit & the drive spins up! But I guess I'll need the utils to
> > format - can someone send me a disk image of Vulcan Drive IIGS utilities
> > or point me to a place where it can be downloaded? Does anyone have
> > better than the 40 meg drive on this card?  The one I have is dead so I
> > tried the only other IDE I have - I gig! possible?
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> I wish. The card apears to be hard coded to that particular make and
> model of hard drive. There was a discussion on this a few years ago and
> a number of people had tried other drives but no one had been able to get
> one to work with the card. If anyone has had any success, I'd love to hear
>  the details.
>

I've successfully used a Western Digital WD93044-A.   Those were fairly
common in 286's and 386's from circa 1990.  They are very distinctive
looking, so when I see them when looking thru computer junk I grab them.  I
have a couple of spares.
-Paul