Re: AI - applied inginuity drive IIgs help!

["David Chiu" <none@nowhere.org>]

"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.