Subject: Re: Vulcan HDs
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Wayne Stewart wrote:
> 
> So now I have 2 Vulcan HDs. A 40mb IIe and a 40mb IIgs one.
> I always thought they were hard coded for a particular HD but while
> being the same size the HDs are different makes(MiniScribe & WD)
> yet I can use both drives on either card so I'm guessing it's the
> size that's hard coded?
> Also does anyone know if the Vulcan Gold upgrade was a hardware
> or software upgrade?
> 
>     Wayne

Wayne,

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