Re: Vulcan drive info

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

Patrick Schaefer <PSchaefer@epost.de> wrote in message
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> 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