Subject: Re: Vulcan HDs
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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 22:52:49 -0700
From: Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>
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Jay wrote:

>
> I've got two WD 93048-AD's working with Vulcan cards myself.
> Could you please tell me which model of WD, and Miniscribe you
> have working?
>
> The Vulcan Gold upgrade is a firmware upgrade.  I have v1.3GS,
> v1.3E, v1.4, and v2.0 (gold) here.  As far as I can tell,
> the big difference with the gold is that you can lower the
> interleave value for faster read/writes.
>
> I have tried MANY 40MB, 80MB, 85MB, and 105MB HD's but none
> of them work.  The only ones I have which work are the 93048's.
>
> Cheers!
>
> --> Jay

Thanks for the info on the Vulcan Gold upgrade
The first drive I had was the WD 93048 which came in the IIe with v1.2
EPROM. The other one is a MiniScribe 8051A which came in the IIgs with
the v1.4 Eprom. I noticed the Gals have the same part # in both cards if
that
has any relevance.

    Wayne