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  • Re: Free Vulcan and Inner Drive Controllers to good home.

    From M. Pender@mpender@hotmail.com to comp.sys.apple2 on Wednesday, July 16, 2003 19:36:00
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    Liam Busey <buseyl@yahoo.com> wrote in message 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.

    - Mike


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  • From mjmahon@mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) to comp.sys.apple2 on Thursday, July 24, 2003 18:31:17
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    M. Pender wrote:

    Liam Busey <buseyl@yahoo.com> wrote in message >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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