Re: Hard Drives for 40 meg vulcan

["Bryan Parkoff" <bparkoff@nospam.org>]

Greg,

    You can remove hard drive 40 meg out of Vulcan power supply by opening 
the power supply unit, but please be very careful and cautious of electrical 
shock.
    You can install two hard drives as IDE that has 2GB each.  It would be 
first hard drive 2GB and second hard drive 2GB.  You can obtain Turbo IDE 
controller card from //SHHH Systeme from Germany.  I have one in my own that 
I like it very much.  It is like RAM disk because it is running very 
quickly.
    Turbo IDE has its own software that it allows you to partition 2GB into 
32MB or less for ProDOS while 2GB can be used for HFS.  It works GS/OS 6.0.1 
very well.

Bryan Parkoff

"Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:8Vtqd.1250$i6.942@news.itd.umich.edu...
>A little more trimming of the case and everything fits now. In fact, it was 
>the area around the power supply that prevented me from securing the 
>siding. I thought it was the hard drive pushing against the keyboard, but 
>it just barely fits. I may try some of the bigger hard drives, just to see 
>what happens, but I'm not expecting much.
>
> -Greg
> "brad" <mrbrad@ll.net> wrote in message 
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>>i know of some people who simply used a vulcan compatible drive (not sure
>> what kind..maybe the one you have) that was too tall..they simply mounted 
>> it
>> somehow within the //e or gs? case...using mounting brackets like a 
>> pc..and
>> used a buggie power supply to run it inside (external power supply) and 
>> the
>> vulcan ide card....sloppy.but if you have a vulcan ide card..and a
>> compatible hd that is too big..well...i guess you make due.....just a
>> thought...
>>
>> brad
>> former sysop lost-gonzo.com
>>
>> "Greg Andrzejewski" <pressyourluck85@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> 19ednedku5N8GzTcRVn-uw@comcast.com">news:19ednedku5N8GzTcRVn-uw@comcast.com...
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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