Re: Wanted: Info's on Applied Ingenuity's Internal HD's !

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be946@freenet.carleton.ca (Simon C.Hall) wrote:

>Hi, Anybody out there have much to say about these powersupply replacing
>HD's. I know of the 20M and the 100M SCSI versions.
>I have a review from Nibbles vol 11/1 and wondered if anyone cares to
>comment. I know nothing of the 100m scsi drives. Is the 20M a scsi or is
>it a ide similar to the focus drive in concept ???

It is either SCSI or IDE.  AI made both versions.

>Are you able to replace the 20M with a bigger drive ?

I think so.  AI's controllers were more advanced than AE's for the Vulcan,
so you might be able to swap a larger drive.  If you have the SCSI version,
for sure you can.  Probably for the IDE version too.

>Is the software for it available from one of our A2 archive's ?

I'm not sure.  AI's controller needed a driver.  It'll work without one,
but much slower (and limited to two partitions).  With the driver,
speed and partition numbers go up.