Re: -Hard-Drives w/vulcan?

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

"brad" <mrbrad(remove)@ll.net> wrote in message 
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> bill g. replies to my quesion below
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> The Vulcan controller is IDE. Any CF to 40 pin IDE adapter
> will work, but you must find 5v and ground on the controller,
> (not hard), and hook it to a standard floppy power plug.
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> end guote
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> duh? technology marches on...they have stuff called a " CF to IDE adaptor"
> duh.i had no idea
> where can i get such a beast (compuguys?/ etc?)

http://siliconkit.dnsalias.com/cart/homeskit.html

> so i simply find the 5v and ground on the vulcan controller and hook it to 
> a
> standard floppy plug
> not sure what you mean exactly ...standard floppy plug? a 5v plug on the 
> ap2
> motherboard someplace?

No, for the adapter. You need to power it, silly.

> i have another wierd guestion....i have that proslot card which allows you
> in slot 7 to put 2 cards sideways into it...the cards tuck under the lip
> of the apple // right side facing down..now i know you don't have the
> card...but the unit i have (the //e dapple //e by dapple computer for use
> with and electron microscope) is setup with one of the dapple cards 
> (video)
> and mouse card in that slot 7 proslot arrangement
>
> could ....using such a card ..could you actually use such a beast
> (concievably) to put say 2 cffa cards or some such silly ness in the same
> slot? or is this limited to printer cards....or something slow...anyway on
> this dapple setup looks like both cards are being used somehow at same 
> time

I'd say you could use any 2 cards as long as they aren't
power hungry. It does switch from one to the other, right?

> anyway...i'll try to get you .jpg of that proslot beast

Actually I'd like to borrow the card for a short time if that
would be a possibility. Sorry I didn't answer your email. Had
it stuck in a saved folder and forgot about it.

Bill Garber