Re: Help needed - Vulcan hard drive

[boylek@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Kevin J Boyle II)]

In article <1993May6.062133.26815@slab.slip.uiuc.edu> derek@slab.slip.uiuc.edu (Derek Taubert) writes:
>I've replaced my old 40 Meg mechanism (RIP) with a newer Western Digital IDE
>drive (40 Meg also), but the firmware (Vulcan gold) is crashing all over the
>place because there is garbage written in the spot where there should be
>partition information.  I've tried running the part.manager, but it crashes
>right away, so I don't seem to have any way to write valid partition
>information onto the disk.  I'm going to have my roommate zero the disk on
>his Gateway system (and do a media check), but I don't know if that will help
>or not.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Derek

   There are only a limited number of hard drive models that work with the
Vulcan Gold ROM.  I know that there is only one Western Digital 40 Meg-ish
drive that works.  Unfortunately, I can't remember the model number (or the
exact size) of the drive.  AE doesn't use the WD mechanisms anymore; they've
gone exclusively to Connors.

-Kevin
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