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Re: Vulcan Gold firmware?
atfphotography@gmail.com wrote:
I actually have three Vulcan GS setups. One came with a Western
Digital 43megabyte drive (on it's last legs) and the two others came
dead with the Seagate ST-125-A - 20 megabyte drives. However! Do note
that a lot of these drives might not be dead. Just "frozen" from the
gunk on the inside from sitting so long. Both Seagate drives were
brought back to life by carefully taking off the bottom circuit board
and giving the spindle a gentle push. Each one was frozen. After I
"unfroze" them, they both came back to life. One of them is a bit
damaged and requires a format.
I'll try that trick with the OEM ST-125.
Your power supply is also probably suffering from old capacitors so
you might use another supply, say from an external hard drive case, to
power the drive up first and then fire up the IIgs to see if you can
get access.
Great minds think alike :-)
I re-capped two of the three Vulcan GS supplies and just finished re-
painting them and putting new cooling fans inside. They came out
great!
Here is the fan DigiKey part number: P13494-ND
Thanks again! I'm reasonably sure I can get the switcher fixed, but if not I
have plenty of experience retrofitting third-party units into existing cases.
Been down this road before with other classic machines, most recently
transplanting the guts from a mini-ATX supply into an Amiga 4000 PS case.
Had an accident re-capping one of the supplies (ooops) so I am re-
tooling it to use a LittlePower GS (http://www.reactivemicro.com/
product_info.php?cPath=1_27&products_id=49) inside of it with a 105mb
Connor drive.
If you are looking for the 105mb drives, I found them here; (http://
www.4drives.biz/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=252). Working
great for me.
Found that earlier today and already ordered one. I've dealt with DCP before
and never had any problems with them. Nice outfit, although certain models of
vintage drives tend to be VERY expensive.
Note that one of my Vulcan GS cards went bad. At first I thought it
was because I tossed it into a IIe when I first got it not realizing
the ROM difference. Turns out the capacitor on the board was bad. Make
sure to have a look at the caps on your Vulcan GS board too.
If you bump into any IIe ROMs for the Vulcan, please let us know!
Didn't know such a thing existed! Wouldn't have thought the power supply
would physically fit in a IIe.