Re: Help needed - Vulcan hard drive

[behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)]

jeffh@apple.com (Jeff Holcomb) writes:

>In article <1993May6.062133.26815@slab.slip.uiuc.edu>,
>derek@slab.slip.uiuc.edu (Derek Taubert) wrote:
>> 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.  I've tried running the part.manager, but it crashes
>Back when I used to work at AE, the firmware for the drives was designed to
>"know" about different hard drive models.  Somewhere in the firmware was
>encoded a table describing info about each model (# of tracks, sectors,
>etc.).  I suspect that your firmware doesn't know about your drive, so it
>can't control the drive.
>Also, the 40meg firmware only knew how to control 40 meg drives.  If you
>want to upgrade the size of the drive, you need to buy a new EPROM from AE.
> :-(

Aha! Biased opinion following :): Buy a Turbo IDE. That will give you
- a lot of speed (i.e. faster than a RF SCSI) and
- no trouble with your drive :)

Yours

Soenke
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