Re: AE Vulcan HD or ///SHH MicroDrive (DOS 3.3 partitions?)

[raymac@crl.com (Raymond D. McAnally)]

Netco King (netcoking@aol.com) wrote:
: Hi guys!  I'm thinking about buying an internal hard drive for my Apple
: IIe
: Enhanced.  My current choices are:

: 1) A used Applied Engineering Vulcan hard drive or,
: 2) ///SHH Systeme MicroDrive IDE card with 2.5" HD mounting kit.

: My question is:  Does either hard drive have software to support DOS 3.3
: partitions?  If yes, can there be separate ProDOS and DOS 3.3 partitions
: on
: the same drive?

The vulcan will support a DOS 3.3 partition, but why buy a used drive 
with no hope of support. I would recommend that you stay with the SCSI 
interface that Apple chose since drives are plentiful and reasonably 
priced. Nothing beats the speed of a RamFast either. You can put a DOS 
3.3 partition on any drive. DOS launcher is one way, though I'm not 
familiar with it. Another way is to use DOS Master by Glenn Breden. This 
program is available from Charlies Apple Seeds and creates an area on the 
drive that can contain as many DOS 3.3 volumes as the drive can hold. It 
also works well from within ProSel which if you have a hard drive, you 
need ProSel. Hope this helps you decide.  

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