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Re: Need help Upgrading Vulcan Hard Drives
- Subject: Re: Need help Upgrading Vulcan Hard Drives
- From: supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)
- Date: 1998/10/25
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
- References: <70k2v1$t6q$1@alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu>
jh417@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas J. Kelly) wrote:
>I'd like to upgrade my 40 meg Vulcan.
>
>Mine has the Vulcan Gold Rom and formatted with the Gold software.
>
> I have a 40 meg version.
Each Vulcan had an interface card that only supported its own
IDE size and smaller. You'll have problems trying to replace
the 40MB mechanism with a larger one. Chances are, your
IIGS will still see it as a 40MB hard drive.
The solution is to replace the interface card.
SHH Systeme (you can find them on the web by searching
their name) makes the "MicroDrive IDE card" which can
take practically any size IDE drive. This is what you want
to get.
The alternative is to replace the Vulcan with a Focus
internal hard drive. Prices start at $59. Check
http://www.allelec.com/ Alltech Electronics for more info.