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Re: Vulcan Gold firmware?



On Jul 26, 1:27 pm, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Steven Hirsch wrote:
> > Wayne Stewart wrote:
> >> On Jul 26, 9:45 am, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Just curious:  Did anyone ever find an image of the Vulcan Gold
> >>> firmware?  I
> >>> just purchased a Vulcan with dead power supply and drive and am
> >>> working on a
> >>> resurrection.  There are a few Conner drives available at reasonable
> >>> prices
> >>> that are reported compatible with the Gold firmware, so I'd like to
> >>> get ahold
> >>> of it.
>
> >>> Steve
>
> >> The vulcan gold 2.0 ROM has been available since about 2002. You need
> >> Partition manager 2.0 to use with it
>
> > I'm possibly a bit confused, then.  There was a thread on this group
> > within the last few weeks that suggested folks were still looking for it.
>
> > Where can I grab the firmware image?  Google (which I never seem to have
> > much luck with) finds nothing.  Ditto for Partition Manager.
>
> Ack, just read more closely and now understand that Vulcan 2.0 == Vulcan gold.
>   So I _do_ have it.  One problem down.
>
> Still not clear on Partition Manager, though.  Is this an AE utility or
> something from Apple?

There's a disk image on Asimov from AE that seems to have a partition
manager on it, in name, anyway.  I don't have a card, so all I can get
out of the utilities is that it can't find itself.

Look for:
ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/hardware/storage/vulcan/VulcanPro.dsk