Re: Show & Tell

["atfphotography@gmail.com" <atfphotography@gmail.com>]

On Jun 16, 9:23 pm, "Garberstreet Electronics" <willy4...@comcast.net>
wrote:
> "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote in message5OWdnZTTRrCSo6XXnZ2dnUVZ_tydnZ2d@giganews.com">news:5OWdnZTTRrCSo6XXnZ2dnUVZ_tydnZ2d@giganews.com...
>
> > PZ wrote:
> >> From what I remember, the earlier vulcans (non-gold) had the drive
> >> specs size, cyl, heads, etc hard coded into the ROMs. So unless you
> >> can find those original (Western Digital - i think) 20 and 40 meg
> >> mechanisms in working order, you're going to be hard pressed to get an
> >> older vulcan controller to work with anything else without a gold rom
> >> upgrade.
>
> > Which is why I was hoping a comparison of, say, the //e 20MB ROM
> > with the //e 40MB ROM might point the way to creating a new ROM
> > with support for a particular drive--or even generalizing the
> > drive support to some degree.
>
> > Of course, we already have more general IDE controllers, so
> > maybe rescuing Vulcan controllers isn't useful.
>
> That's the reason I am not banging my head over it.
>
> Garberstreet Electronicshttp://www.garberstreet.com

Hello,

Maybe not useful but it is fun!

I'm going to try to hunt down a proper 20 meg or 40 meg drive and test
it with this ROM here.

Best!

ATF