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

[carbide@egine.com]

Bill Garber wrote:
> <carbide@egine.com> wrote in message

> :
> : 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.

That's not an issue, you just read the eeprom, modify the code, and
burn it to another eeprom. No need to mess with the original eeprom.

The problem is figuring out which section of the code to change, and
what to change it to. This is out of my area of expertise, so I'll
defer to firmware coders...

-Paul