Re: Vulcan drive info

[Patrick Schaefer <PSchaefer@epost.de>]

Wayne Stewart schrieb:

> I wish. The card apears to be hard coded to that particular make and
> model of hard drive. 

Hard coded to those old IDE drives? Those times hardly anybody knew the
Inquiry command. Get a drive with at least as many Heads, Sectors and
Cylinders as your original one and give him a try. 

If it's really hardcoded, you should find the drives name (the
identifier string as it is displayed by a PC's bios) in the card's ROM
or driver program. All IDE drives use the same commands, so this is the
only way for a program to identify the drive model. Then you could try
to replace this string with the one your new drive shows. However, if
those guys were clever, they used a checksum to protect the string, or
did some kind of XOR encryption.

In case you are not able to do a low level format you could use a PC
utility like Symantec Ghost (or Linux dd) to "clone" a working HD. These
programs do a 1:1 copy of the sectors without caring for the file
system. 


Patrick