Re: AI - applied inginuity drive IIgs help!

[Stephen Shaw <xstephenx@apple2.org.za>]

Couldn't you stick and ordinary IDE drive into it. I know the IDE is 16 bit but
I've goto ask :-). Also what about Vulcan drives then?

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 14:13:16 -0700, David Chiu wrote:

> "thomas" <thomas@pathlink.com> wrote in message
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>> AI APPLIED INGINUITY disk drive that looks like a power supply with an
>> attached drive card (sort of a vulcan drive I suppose).
>
> Yup, that's the "InnerDrive." Had one for a while (40MB version) till I
> sold in and swapped it for Rev C SCSI...
>
>> Q: how can I tell how large the drive is? looking at the labels,
>> nothing seems obvious - later I'll explain 'why' I'm a bit worried
>> about plugging it in...
>
> The drive were sold in capacity of 20MB or 40MB. Typically it's written
> somewhere on the label. Easy way is to pop it and look at the drive
> mechanism; should be a Western Digital mechanism.
>
>> Q: is this scsi or IDE? the connections look IDE and the card looks a
>> bit 'simple' for it to be scsi - i.e. no id jumpers, very few chips -
>> 4 I think - etc.
>
> IDE; XT-IDE (8-bit variant of IDE that never took off.)
>
>> Q: is the power supply a good replacement for the stock 03 psupply or
>> will I be 'loosing' something to gain the internal drive?
>
> Nothing that I am aware of...
>
>> Q: will I need any drivers/etc. to get GSOS/prodos to play with this
>> puppy and what's the appropriate slot for this (the slot is 'short'
>> enough to NOT touch my memory card if placed in slot 7) and I assume I
>
> Typically a driver diskette is shipped with the drive (although the drive
> is also pre-loaded with software and OS.) Usually people park their hard
> disk host adapter in slot 7.
>
>> can still use appletalk by setting that slot to appletalk in
>> conjuction with the drive (I'd be using this with a voc, zipgsx, some
>> audio extension on top of (not in it just on top of it) slot 1 that I
>> have not figured out yet, and a memory card I can't remember the name
>> right now - it's red, and only long enough to fit 4 1 meg simms)!!!!
>
> Sorry, don't know. Never used AppleTalk before (and not bloody likely ever
> will.)
> The RAM card sounded like Sequential system's RAM card.
>
>> Q: can I open the supply and swap out the drive (the labels warn me
>> left and right NOT to open it - what should I watch out for) - and if
>> I DO make it alive past opening the case, what's an appropriate drive
>> replacement?
>
> You can't find drives that will work any more. The last XT-IDE drive I saw
> in a retail environment was in 1992 (JVC drive, 60MB) Western Digital
> hasn't made an XT-IDE drive in years and years...
>
>> the supply currently has a few 'white' spots on the case - not sure if
>> this is a 'warning' to not plug it into my one and ONLY 03 motherboard
>> or not.
>
> Sorry, don't quite know what you're referring to.
>
>> lastly - if I can't use this psupply - would a psupply from an 01
>> mboard suffice in an 03 motherboard? I have a much better chance at
>> finding an 01 board and using it's power supply than to hunt around
>> town looking for another 03 board - well at least the gas prices are
>> cheap in the bay area - NOT!!!!!
>
> Don't see why not. It's too bad that it decided to go now; as Weird Stuff
> had dozens of GS'es six or seven months ago... If you're in a pinch, I
> think I have a dead ROM1 with good power supply in it.

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