Re: AAUGH! Vulcan 20 dying??

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

Mark Cummings <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au> wrote in message
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> >Unfortunetly the EPROM on the card is coded to that particular make,
model
> >and size of drive. It's unfortunate that AE did that as it now keeps
> everyone
> >from upgrading their drive. Other than finding another duplicate drive.
the
> >only options are to go SCSI or get an ide card from ///SHH Systeme in
> >Germany.
>
> or... figure out the EPROM code as I hope to do to my now dead
VulcanGS40Mb
> WD93048-AD.
>

You may be able to scrounge up a drive. I found one in a 286 PC that I was
able to format to work with my 40 meg Vulcan. It looked just like the one in
my Vulcan, though it was a little newer, so I tried it.

>
> one possible explanation on the bit only appearing on every second
character
> (byte) is that the Vulcan uses 16 bit I/O between the card and HDD and 8
bit
> to the Apple bus. I would suspect a single stuck bit on the card.
>

Weak points are connectors...
-Paul