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Re: Free Vulcan and Inner Drive Controllers to good home.
- Subject: Re: Free Vulcan and Inner Drive Controllers to good home.
- From: mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)
- Date: 24 Jul 2003 18:31:17 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
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M. Pender wrote:
>Liam Busey <buseyl@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>vfvel3nip23e33@corp.supernews.com">news:vfvel3nip23e33@corp.supernews.com...
>> I've been cleaning up this weekend and am trying to find new homes for
>some
>> unused stuff. In the Apple II category I have Vulcan (20?) and Inner Drive
>> (40?) harddisk controllers available for shipping. Also I have 2 XT-IDE
>> harddisks that may be convinced to work with them. I'll let them go for
>$10
>> shipping in the continental USA or free for pickup in Annapolis, MD. All
>> items as is. Power supply enclosures not included.
>
>Do you mean you have the controllers separate from the disks? I thought the
>Vulcan used some kind of proprietary scheme and connected to an internal
>hard disk. The few I've seen were bulky things that replaced the system
>power supply.
The disk drive used in Vulcans were just IDE drives. The controller
firmware was pretty specific, though, to the particular drives used, so
a Vulcan controller card is not a good choice for a general IDE card.
-michael
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