Re: Vulcan HD Breakthru

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

"Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au> wrote in message
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> That's great news.
>
> I'm with Wayne, I'd love to get a 100-200megger going, I have a 170Mb
Conner
> that is worth a go later, and for starters I have a Conner 40M CP3000
model
> that was used in these things, so this is definately worth a go.
>
> Is you Vulcan a //e model or a IIGS model ?
>

Mine's a IIgs model. Regarding the  Conner CP3000, that was the 1/3 height
drive I tried. It partioned, and the 32 meg partition formatted, but the
other partition wouldn't format. The IIgs recognized the partition, and one
small file copied, then it just gave disk errors. I figure the CP3000 has
too many cylinders or maybe too many sect/trk. Here are the specs on it,
from The Ref.  It has 2 heads, 1045 cylinders, and 40 sect/trk.


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    MANUFACTURER    UNFORMAT WTH. PL CYLS ST CYLS INTERFACE  ACC  XFER.
POWER
    MODEL NUMBER    FORMATED HGT. HD PREC AC HDS  REC.METH   T-T  CACHE
MTBF
                                     L.Z.    ST        ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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    CONNER                   3.50  1 1045 40  980 IDE(AT)   28ms  12.0Mb
3.1W
    CP-3000           42.8MB 1.0"  2 NONE VC   5  (2,7)RLL  11.0m   8KB
100K
                                     AUTO     17                      3,557
RPM
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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