Re: Vulcan question

[goldbug@oanet.com@oanet.com (Herbert Fung)]

In <4meips$rna@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us>, dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) writes:
>
>I'm about to do it.  I'm about to get a larger hard drive for my IIgs.
>
>At the moment, it looks like I'll be dismembering my Vulcan GS, replacing
>its drive with a SCSI drive, and replacing the controller card with an
>Apple High Speed SCSI controller.  No problem there, certainly.
>
>BUT:  There is the problem of the transition.  The Vulcan is leaving my
>IIgs, but I'd like it to leave the data behind.  The question is, can I do
>this without cooking my power supply?
>What I want to do is use the Vulcan PS to power both its own drive and the
>new drive while I transfer the data...new drive in Slot #7 and the Vulcan
>in some other slot.  Then, once the transfer is complete, I can pull the
>old drive and put the system back to normal.

I dunno, I've heard that Vulcan PS can get flakey and that may have been one
of my problems last year. I wouldn't be a strong advocate for powering both
drives with the Vulcan. I've made a similar modification with my Vulcan, but
the only exception is that I'm using a used Mac LC power supply to power the
drive. I suppose if you did this you could also have both drives running too.