Re: Does the Transwarp GS card have a SCSI interface?

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Bill Garber replied:

>"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
>20041004133548.22932.00001354@mb-m10.aol.com">news:20041004133548.22932.00001354@mb-m10.aol.com...
>: 
>: The Vulcan card is not a SCSI card, but a rather 
>: specilized IDE controller, which works with the 
>: Vulcan IDE drive.  Its ROM is pretty picky about 
>: what IDE drives it works with.  Because of their 
>: specialization, they are not generally worth much 
>: except to someone who has a Vulcan drive and no card.
>
>That isn't entirely true, Michael. I have a Vulcan 
>card with an IDE to CF card adapter attached and a 
>20MB CF card in place and functioning. I have tried 
>the 100MB ROM in it, but can't seem to get a 64MB 
>CF card to work. I'm not entirely sure that the ROM 
>for larger drives even works in the card at all, as 
>I can't seem to get any hard drives to work either. 

Thanks for reminding me that you got a CF card
to work.  I guess I regard the set of things that work
as so restricted compared to other IDE adapters
(like the Focus or the TurboIDE) that it is much
less interesting.

It must be fun to have your CF card on it, though.  ;-)

-michael

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