Re: -Hard-Drives w/vulcan?

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

"Sean Fahey" <a2fan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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"brad" <mrbrad(remove)@ll.net> wrote in message
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>> anyway...as far as the vulcan card ...prob never get
>> to it but was wondering......


> Alright, but that confuses me - why on earth would anyone
> want to use a Vulcan controller UNLESS they want to either
> keep their Vulcan setup in it's original condition, or if
> it's the only controller they have (or can get)? The Vulcan
> controller, even with Gold, is a slow and clunky proposition.
> It's drive table is seriously constraining, and it's not even
> 100% IDE compatible. Yah it was great back in the day...
>
> I can "get it" if a collector is keeping his system intact.
> Heck, I'll admit the Vulcan power supply is actually pretty
> darn good... I have a Vulcan ea in one my IIe and GS machines
> but only because they're theme machines. I've called them the
> Applied IIGS and Applied IIe - sort of a pun play on Apple and
> Applied Engineering... anyway, those machines have nothing but
> AE parts in them. Otherwise, I wouldn't use a Vulcan controller
> for anything.

I have a Vulcan with CF card adapter installed and a 20MB CF
card inserted into it. Works great for booting up and running
small ProDOS programs on the II+ or Franklin Ace 1000 or Laser128,
but not much good for anything else. I've even booted GS/OS 6.0.1
on the ROM03 IIgs with the darned thing. Getting it partitioned
was a helluva thing, but I got it to work finally. I put the GOLD
rom on it, but seems to not like the 64MB CF card or the 128 MB card.
Must be a Cylinder/Head/Sector thing, but I never did figure it out.
Maybe a 96MB CF card would work, but I ain't wastin' the dough to
find out.

Bill Garber