mdj wrote:
Michael J. Mahon wrote:Exactly. And if it's the disk drive, I'd be getting worried about *all* disk drives of that vintage now.As you should - 15 years is a long time to expect hard disks to be operational for.The fundamental weakness of the Vulcan for the long term is its lack of generality in adapting to the IDE drive that's installed.True, but it's fundamental strength is the internal mounting setup for hard disks, which you can easily adapt to other controllers.
That's what I loved about mine before I went CFFA. ;-) -michael New, faster SUDOKU v2.0 solver for Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."