Re: another source for HD for Focus and other uses for 2.5 drives

[pilgrimer <me@myid.mine>]

On a similar note:  I was attempting to get a Vulcan Gold with a blown 
ancient 100mb hard drive to live again.  Reaching into my box of ancient 
drives liberated from old 386 and 486 PCs destined for that great 
landfill in the sky, I took out a trusty floppy formated and including 
ProDOS and the GOLD  (not the earlier black) version of Part.Manager  (
the Vulcan format utility) and  proceeded to attempt a recovery.  Unlike 
later IDE solutions, the Vulcan, being on the bleeding edge of the move 
away from SCSI  will not accept all IDE drives but ONLY such drives as 
it includes the information about in its descriptor table in the 
firmware.  That is why the Gold is better then the balck:  Longer list,  
later developed, more drives accepted.  But alas....not ALL drives.  and,
none I had  <grumble>    For this chore some specifiv guidlines are in 
order:  No drive larger then 500 meg will work.  Some types such as the 
Western Digital Caviar series are right out.  IBMs will work but the 
Vulcan thinks they are Conners,  and other such weirdness.  Best bets 
are Conner Fujitsu and early Seagate.  

Anyway, NONE of my 3.5s worked so....  on to plan B:  I looked at my 
little box of 2.5 drives and...humm   square peg, round hole.....   A 
trip to a local electronics emporium and I had a gadget that converted 2.
5 to 3.5 and  RATS,   wrong way.  Back to the store!.....  now where was 
I ..oh yes...   

Back to Parts.Manager and....  Eureka!   (on the way to Modesto...)  I 
have a drive Parts.Mangaler is familiar with! A Conner CP2124    This 2.
5 drive, pulled from some antiquated Compaq laptop,  is perfect for the 
Vulcan Gold.  it is 121 mb and partitons into 4 logical drives.   Just 
thought I would toss this into the pot
-Bart
KKeeper of the Network from Heck