Re: Vulcan info needed

[mystix@direct.ca@direct.ca]

In <384de256.0@news1.svn.net>, "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net> writes:

>Hmmmnnn, when I try to boot I see the drive light come on, and hear the disk
>seeking, but then the IIgs sez:    "Unable to load prodos."  Maybe the
>previous owner wiped the disk, including ProDos. Searching the net for

Seems likely.

>"vulcan" and "IIgs" I did find some mention of having to put the driver on a
>boot floppy in order to install ProDos, and I found a file called "aehd.shk
>" in one of the archives. I'm hoping that's the driver, but need to do some
>setup to get it onto a ProDos disk.

I think you can boot off a GS/OS install floppy and install system software on
the Vulcan, but as I said you won't achieve optimal operational speeds without
the driver.

>Anyone know what the 4 dip switches do?

Without trying to dig through piles of boxes to find the manual, I'll tell you what
I think I remember. I think they are for setting the card to allow to boot from
Slot 7, even if it's installed in a different slot.