Re: drives on a vulcan controller?

[spectre@tlp.apana.org.au (Anthony Adverse)]

gdr@myrias.ab.ca (Devin Reade) writes:

> I understand that the 100 Meg controller would work with any 100 Meg
> IDE disk, but that the 40- and 20-Meg controllers would only work
> with certain drives (of the appropriate size).  I don't recall which
> ones they were, and I don't know if this restriction was only for
> the original Vulcan ROMS or for the Vulcan Gold ROMS as well.
> 
> If you buy a replacement IDE drive and the Vulcan card won't work,
> check out the Turbo IDE board.  It will apparently work with any
> model/brand/size of IDE disk.

This is really only hearsay... but I was under the impression and I could well
be wrong, that the vulcans could be daisy chained to another IDE drive, in
"normal" ibm style... seeing as how like SCSI drives they are purely block
devices...  however the rumour was also that they wouldn't be able to be used
as prodos devices.. whether this was due to size or not I don't know... if
nothing else an option that bears investigation...

Anon, Spectre

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