Re: Help needed - Vulcan hard drive

[glyn@cs.UAlberta.CA (Reade Glyn Devin)]

In article <1sc6je$acm@usenet.rpi.edu> boylek@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Kevin J Boyle II) writes:
>In article <1993May6.062133.26815@slab.slip.uiuc.edu> derek@slab.slip.uiuc.edu (Derek Taubert) writes:
>>I've replaced my old 40 Meg mechanism (RIP) with a newer Western Digital IDE
>>drive (40 Meg also), but the firmware (Vulcan gold) is crashing all over the
>>place because there is garbage written in the spot where there should be
>>partition information.

[...]

>   There are only a limited number of hard drive models that work with the
>Vulcan Gold ROM.  I know that there is only one Western Digital 40 Meg-ish
>drive that works.  Unfortunately, I can't remember the model number (or the
>exact size) of the drive.  AE doesn't use the WD mechanisms anymore; they've
>gone exclusively to Connors.

Apparently, the Turbo IDE card will work with all the vulcan drives and
with all other IDE drives that the Vulcan card pukes on.  You may want
to consider this before trashing that new 40megger.

Disclaimer:  I don't own a Turbo IDE, but I intend to get one in the
near future to replace my Vulcan card.

--Devin Reade		glyn@cs.ualberta.ca