Re: Vulcan 20MB IIGS hardrive -/ controller card

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

DeaconBlue wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have tried to fire-up a second-hand Vulcan 20MB harddrive sitting in a 
> IIGS ROM01. There is a ribbon-cable sticking out of the drive and a separate 
> controller card marked:  Vulcan Rev.1.1  GS/20
>
> The ribbon-cable from the drive does not seem to have a insert-guide notch 
> in order to see if the cable is inserted correctly or up-side down.   Would 
> the red-lead on the ribbon-cable be facing up-or down when connecting to the 
> controller card?

Not sure about the stripe, but the cable had no half-twist when it was
correctly installed.

> Would I expect the drive to be readable directly after boot-up?  I tried to 
> make the drive the start-up drive in CP, but this only resulted in a system 
> freeze.

Not a good sign--it should boot, assuming that it's partitioned and
the first partition is formatted for ProDOS.

> Which command should be issued  in order to access the drive from Prodos 
> /Dos3.3?

DOS 3.3 won't see it--it doesn't support hard drives.

But ProDOS will see it, and CATALOG,S7,D1 (assuming slot 7) should
work.

-michael

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