Re: AE Vulcan.

[mystix@direct.ca@direct.ca]

In <20000402010152.20213.00000456@ng-fz1.aol.com>, simm8mb@aol.com (SIMM8MB) writes:
>Hi. I found a 20 meg vulcan for the GS, and someone was nice enough to send me
>a copy of the software for it. When the software is run, it says, "NO VULCAN

Wow, that was fast.

>FOUND IN ANY SLOT". I have it in slot 7. I know the drive spins- and the LED on
>the card light up during startup. Help!

Which version did you run? You should try to run the Vulcan Gold disk's
partitioning software too. If that doesn't work, my guess the drive is shot.

I recently aquired a Vulcan in which the drive was all seized up. Out of a
complete fluke, I found the exact replacement at a local used computer
store, they just happened to have a used 40MB Western Digital sitting around.

Oddly enough, I always was under the impression that the drive geometry
was stored on the firmware on the card, but when I put in the replacement
drive, my regular Vulcan software didn't recognize it, but as soon as I ran the
Vulcan Gold software I had no problem.

I don't know all the manufacturers of all the drive's AE used in their Vulcans,
but it looks like the older Vulcan's used the Western Digital, and the Vulcan
Gold used a Connor drive.