Re: Appled Ingenuity Inner Drive Help?

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Jack Countryman <jcountry@seidata.com> wrote:

>I've been given some IIGS stuff, including an AI Inner Drive 40.  The
>power supply in the drive seems to be dead, but the drive will spin up
>when hooked to an external power supply.  When attached to the AI card,
>their utilities see the drive, but report its formatted with an older
>version of their software (the floppy disk has v4 on them).  But v4
>won't let me reformat the drive....reporting errors.  I tried a
>different 60 odd meg IDE mechanism from an old 386SX, but the inner
>drive controller/software doesn't even see it.  So....I seem to have a
>good controller/software but bad drive/power supply....  Anyone have a
>good AI Inner Drive that's looking for a controller/software? or an
>older version of the software I can try?   I'd really like to get this
>going on the old IIGS so someone can use it again...all help
>appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

The Inner Drive controller's ROM is hard coded to use 40MB
geometry IDE drive.  That's why your 60MB unit did not work.

You have two choices: either find a new 40MB unit of the same
geometry or change the controller.  The Focus controller from
Alltech or the Microdrive Turbo card from ///SHH Systeme
(web site can be found via a search) can see IDE drives of all
geometry up to 2GB.