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Re: Found a Vulcan HD!



In article <37634B6B.FB21ADC6@intergate.bc.ca>, Wayne Stewart 
<waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:

> It is an IDE drive and controller, however the controller is hard coded to
> the drive. With Applied Engineering gone, the only real way to upgrade is to

That's what I was saying.  I don't *need* to upgrade, especially for $100+ 
for a controller card.  All I really need is a bootable hard drive and I 
can use Appletalk to store files on a Mac.  And that's what I have.

> change the controller . Either with an IDE controller from ///SHH Systeme or
> installing a SCSI drive and using a controller such as the RamFast.
> Even without upgrading it's a fairly speedy drive & controller that
> outperforms some SCSI cards. If you have a Vulcan Driver that speeds it up
> even more. If you have a slow HD & controller you might consider using the
> Vulcan as a boot drive. Also it's got a fairly heavy duty power supply.

See, that's the thing.  I *don't* have a Vulcan *driver*.  None came on 
the hard drive or with the machine, and I'm just using it as GSOS 6.0.1 
supports it.  If there is a specific driver for it, and someone has the 
URL, I'll use it.

> HFS? I like it and use it but a number of people have had problems and lost
> data. So far I've been lucky but I've always been strong on making backups.

Yes, I am well aware of lost data with HFS.  But with which version of the 
FST?  Are there still problems with the 6.0.1 HFS FST?