Re: -Hard-Drives w/vulcan?

["brad" <mrbrad(remove)@ll.net>]

"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message
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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?...

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

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

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

brad
former sysop lost gonzo bbs






> "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......
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> > 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
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