Re: Vulcan drive info

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.ca>]

Paul Grammens wrote:

> Patrick Schaefer <PSchaefer@epost.de> wrote in message
> 3C62DA0A.87938BA9@epost.de">news:3C62DA0A.87938BA9@epost.de...
> > Wayne Stewart schrieb:
> >
> > > I wish. The card apears to be hard coded to that particular make and
> > > model of hard drive.
> >
> > Hard coded to those old IDE drives? Those times hardly anybody knew the
> > Inquiry command. Get a drive with at least as many Heads, Sectors and
> > Cylinders as your original one and give him a try.
> >
>
> I tried that a while back. I figured as long as the drive had more heads,
> sectors and cylinders it would work. The Vulcan did go thru the motions of
> formatting, but the drive wasn't usable afterwards.  So I gave up.
> -Paul

One thought, I wonder if a drive was formatted on another kind Apple II IDE
card. Would the Vulcan recognize that already formatted drive or does the
Vulcan use something proprietary in it's formatting?

    Wayne