Re: cf card to ide adaptor will it work via vulcan controller?

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

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: Bill Garber wrote:
: > "Mark McDougall" <msmcdoug@no.spam.iinet> wrote in message
: > news:44d9136d$0$25739$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
: > : Patrick Schaefer wrote:
: > :
: > : > CF cards in True IDE mode can be used with anything that is able to
: > : > acces an IDE drive in LBA mode. Usually these cards do not work with
: > : > controllers that stick to the old Cylinder-Head-Sector scheme,
though it
: > : > works sometimes.
: > :
: > : I'm yet to see evidence of this. The CompactFlash specification has
full
: > : support for CHS mode...
: >
: > The problem with the Vulcan doesn't lie with the CF card, but with the
: > firmware itself. It is designed to work with 20, 40, 60, 80, 100 MB
: > drives, and most CF cards either don't meet, or exceed these limits.
:
: That's not exactly it. The problem is the Vulcan firmware only
: recognizes drives with two heads. I found a few 100 meg drives that
: would work with Vulcan Gold firmware because they were spec'd with 2
: heads. I think they were Connors.
:
: The vast majority of small IDE drives only have 2 physical heads, but
: have 4 logical heads. I hope I said that right, if you're knowledgeable
: enough to know, you know what I mean.
:
: The reason I know this is I offered an Apple IIc Plus as a prize a few
: years ago to anyone who could hack the Vulcan firmware and make it work
: with drives with 4 logical heads. Could it be as easy as changing 0010
: to 0100?
: -Paul

It could, but I doubt it, but back it up,
try it and if not, then no harm done.

Bill Garber