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Re: Hard Drives for 40 meg vulcan

Greg Andrzejewski wrote:

Hi,
    After giving up on my vulcan power supply, I dug up the smallest PC
power supply I could find and attatched the IIe power connector to it from
the dead vulcan power supply. I had a wonderful plan where everything fits
inside the platinum IIe case, but the hard drive from the Vulcan is just too
darn tall. I have some shorter IDE hard drives (250 meg+), but I'm not sure
if they still spin up or if they would even work with the vulcan. Is there a
list of drives that will work with a 40 meg vulcan card? Can my vulcan card
be upgraded to support slightly larger drives?

Any help is appreciated,

Greg Andrzejewski


AE used the firmware to limit what the controller will be able to use.
If you can burn a 27C256 EPROM you can download an image of the EPROM
for the 100mb Vulcan from my site. It allows a few more drives to be
used but it's still pretty limited. It's labeled Vulcangold and to use
it you'll also need the Partition Manager that's with it.

Paul Grammens and myself tried a number of drives a few years ago. If
you Google Vulcan and one of our names you should find a list of drives
that we tried and found to work with the 40mb EPROM and the 100mb Vulcan
Gold EPROM.

Wayne