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Re: Bigger Vulcan Drives?

In article <3bqab1$k72@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> fw060@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jason Thomas) writes:

>I have a 40 Meg vulcan, and I was wondering has anyone gotten a
>Seagate ST3144A to work on their machines?

I understand that the ROMs on the Vulcan would only accept certain
makes/models of drives, and only of a single size.  Whether the ST3144A
is of this group, I don't know.

>I also tried a Maxtor 80 meg drive on it, and the computer couldn't
>even BOOT with in connected.

That would probably be the incompatible size problem.

If you can't get your new drives to work with the Vulcan, you may want
to consider getting a TurboIDE card as a replacement for the Vulcan
controller.  Although it's yet another expense, it's reputed work with
any IDE drive up to about 256Meg, and it can have two drives attached,
rather than just one.

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	Devin Reade		gdr@myrias.ab.ca