Re: Found a Vulcan HD!

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

It is an IDE drive and controller, however the controller is hard coded to
the drive. With Applied Engineering gone, the only real way to upgrade is to
change the controller . Either with an IDE controller from ///SHH Systeme or
installing a SCSI drive and using a controller such as the RamFast.
Even without upgrading it's a fairly speedy drive & controller that
outperforms some SCSI cards. If you have a Vulcan Driver that speeds it up
even more. If you have a slow HD & controller you might consider using the
Vulcan as a boot drive. Also it's got a fairly heavy duty power supply.

HFS? I like it and use it but a number of people have had problems and lost
data. So far I've been lucky but I've always been strong on making backups.
With prodos there are a lot of disk management and repair utilities as
opposed to nothing for HFS. Another item to consider is that you can only
boot GSOS programs off a HFS partition and an occasional one of those won't
recognize the HFS partitions. I prefer to use 5 prodos and one HFS partition.