Re: cf card to ide adaptor will it work via vulcan controller?

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Bill Garber wrote:
> "Mark McDougall" <msmcdoug@no.spam.iinet> wrote in message
> news:44d9136d$0$25739$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
> : Patrick Schaefer wrote:
> :
> : > CF cards in True IDE mode can be used with anything that is able to
> : > acces an IDE drive in LBA mode. Usually these cards do not work with
> : > controllers that stick to the old Cylinder-Head-Sector scheme, though it
> : > works sometimes.
> :
> : I'm yet to see evidence of this. The CompactFlash specification has full
> : support for CHS mode...
>
> The problem with the Vulcan doesn't lie with the CF card, but with the
> firmware itself. It is designed to work with 20, 40, 60, 80, 100 MB
> drives, and most CF cards either don't meet, or exceed these limits.

That's not exactly it. The problem is the Vulcan firmware only
recognizes drives with two heads. I found a few 100 meg drives that
would work with Vulcan Gold firmware because they were spec'd with 2
heads. I think they were Connors.

The vast majority of small IDE drives only have 2 physical heads, but
have 4 logical heads. I hope I said that right, if you're knowledgeable
enough to know, you know what I mean.

The reason I know this is I offered an Apple IIc Plus as a prize a few
years ago to anyone who could hack the Vulcan firmware and make it work
with drives with 4 logical heads. Could it be as easy as changing 0010
to 0100? 
-Paul