Re: -Hard-Drives w/vulcan?

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

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> I have a Vulcan with CF card adapter installed
> and a 20MB CF card inserted into it. Works great
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> ok.now it is my turn to say HUH?....what the heck
> is a CF card adaptor for a 20mb CF card?...

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.

> maybe go back to orig idea..just do this above hack
> as a kludge...and keep a power supply in the unit

Yeah, back in the day, hard drives were much easier to
identify by size in Megabyte: 5, 10, 20, 40, 80, 100, etc...
Now they are are all over the place.

> also ...as far as the 96mb cf card thingy...just try it
> if it does not work take it back to best buy...i've done
> that (of course i think? they just gave me store credit..
> but if you plan on blowing 100 bucks on something try this
> first..if it works then you can decide if it is worth it

Best Buy is not what I'd call an option. They aren't that
close to me, for one, and second, their prices are very high
compared to lots of online stores. Much easier for me to sit
here and order things at half to 3/4 of the price, and wait
for the postman to cometh. I have Staples, Rat Shack, K-Mart,
and WalMart much closer to me. However, they don't normally
carry the off sizes of CF card. 64, 128, 256, 512 MB cards
are much more commonplace.

> of course every one realizes that Sean is right..all in
> all these are really dumb ideas unless you happen to find
> a vulcan on a sidewalk or something and just have some side
> units to stick it into for the heck of it


Yep, got my Vulcan controller in a lot of other stuff, from
which I wanted some other items, so I bought the lot.

Bill Garber