Re: InnerDrive

[dchiu@netcom.com (David C.W. Chiu)]

In article <3l0oie$g9e@crl6.crl.com>,
Raymond D. McAnally <raymac@crl.com> wrote:

>Both the Inner Drive and Vulcan used IDE type drives. The ROM on the card
>was locked to a drive size with the vulcan. This may also be true of the
>Inner Drive. However, the Vulcan Gold upgrade did not have this
>limitation. The best advice I can give is to try to borrow someones drive
>to test it. IDE drives have come down in price even more than SCSI, so
>someone you know may have a 100 meg drive sitting around after upgrading
>to a 540 or such.

InnerDrive does not have the drive size burn into its firmware.
(Otherwise the 40meg drive I had could not have worked with the 20meg
drive firmware) The formatter and firmware are lock into each other however;
that is to say that a specific version of format utility will only work
with specific version of the firmware.

I am not certain if the firmware will work with drive size larger than
40meg (never tried it) Maybe one of these days if I come across a cheap
8-bit IDE drive larger than 20meg...