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

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

<carbide@egine.com> wrote in message
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: Bill Garber wrote:
: > <carbide@egine.com> wrote in message
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: > :
: > : 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
: >
: > It could, but I doubt it, but back it up,
: > try it and if not, then no harm done.
:
: That's not an issue, you just read the eeprom, modify the code, and
: burn it to another eeprom. No need to mess with the original eeprom.
:
: The problem is figuring out which section of the code to change, and
: what to change it to. This is out of my area of expertise, so I'll
: defer to firmware coders...
:
: -Paul

I'll have a go at it.

Bill