Wayne Stewart wrote:
On Aug 12, 12:16 pm, "Simon D. Williams" <bb...@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:I've recently acquired a IIgs with a 40 meg vulcan drive. The drive seems to be working fine... no bad blocks, according to Prosel and no weird noises. I thought it might be prudent to ask a few questions before messing things up:
4. Is it SCSI, IDE or something else?It's IDE but it looks like AE tried to force you to buy their upgrade by making the ROMs so that they wouldn't work with a larger HD than what came with that card. Someone came across a card with the EPROM for a 100mb drive a while back. It let you use a wider variety of drives. All my hardware's in storage right now but someone here should be able to burn you a copy of it. A search of comp.sys.apple2 will give you a list of the drives we found that worked.
The drive parameters were hard-coded into the ROM routines. It's possible that this was done overtly to keep users from upgrading their drives inexpensively, but it was also true that standard methods for reading drive parameters from the drive itself were just beginning to become common (remember how you used to have to tell the BIOS that you had a "type 44" drive, etc.?). -michael NadaNet file server for Apple II computers! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."