Re: Backing Up Vulcan

["RedskullDC" <RDC@oz.org>]

Hi Greg,

"Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> I notice my beige g3 tower and an idea strikes me. The Vulcan HD is just a 
> regular IDE drive, right?

I think the Drives used in the Vulcan units (at least some of them anyway)
were "XT" IDE drives. 8-Bit data path instead of 16-Bit.
I can dig mine out to check for you if necessary.

Modern computer BIOSes/Motherboards may not know how to handle
these.

I used a CFFA card and copied the Vulcan's partitions over to a CF card
for backup purposes. Wrote a quick BASIC program that copied the
blocks one by one using ProDOS MLI calls since the Vulcan HD had
a few read/write errors.

Cheers,
Red