Re: Apple Power Supply Questions

[capknight <cepheusfilms@gmail.com>]

On Apr 13, 10:17 am, zwsdot...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Apr 13, 9:42 am, ]3ob <john@doh!.com> wrote:
>
> > > The Vulcan GS drives that I found in the 105mb range were the Conner
> > > CP3104. Discount Computer Peripherals has a few in stock. They are
> > > located athttp://www.4drives.com/. Someone was kind enough to
>
> Hey! I thought the Vulcan was an ST506 interface. But the CP3104 is an
> IDE (ATA) drive.
>
> So I am guessing from your message that the Vulcan's requirement is
> for an IDE drive that supports 8-bit transfer mode (which was deleted
> from practically all drives - the last vendor I know of to support it
> was Conner Peripherals in fact).
>
> FYI, it is a requirement of the CompactFlash specification that all CF
> cards must support 8-bit mode. So you should be able to drop in any
> size of CF card by using a simple passive adapter like this one:
> <http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.10309> ($2.64 with free
> shipping) or this one that has an externally accessible CF slot
> <http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.10311> ($4.21 with free
> shipping).

Interesting.

I think the biggest problem with the Vulcan cards is that they are
programmed for a very small segment of hard drives. I've tried other
40 and 100 megabyte drives from the period and haven't had any luck.

If it's not on that list above, they simply don't work.

Thanks for the info on the CF adapters!

C