wjb1@tank.uchicago.edu (William J. Buikema) (01/06/90)
Can anyone give me any information on the 40 Meg Vulcan hard drive from AE? I need this information for my father who wants to get a hard drive for his IIGS. I saw that it recently got a good review from the the InCider. Any recommendations or info is welcome. Post or E-mail if this has been covered recently. Thanks Bill Buikema wjb1@tank.uchicago.edu wjb1@tank.uchicago.bitnet
johnw@pro-harvest.cts.com (John Withers) (01/13/90)
In-Reply-To: message from wjb1@tank.uchicago.edu I can't comment on the 40MB, but the 20MB I've had for the last two months works great. Its on a //e and installed in minutes. Seems adequatly fast even compared to drives on AT class IBM-PC clones John /* Signature line under construction -- Read at your own risk /*
qig@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (The Insane Hermit) (01/15/90)
I have had a 40 meg Vulcan on my 2gs for about 2 or 3 months now. I have experienced no problems so far. My only complaints would be That the fan is slightly loose and has a tendency to scrape sometimes and make it noisy when it first starts up. The software that come swiht it is really very nice and it is very quiet. The only thing I think AE could add to improve it would be a utility to do a low level format of the drive and to make the nda for setting the boot partition to select the one you press return on not the way it is now where you have to use the arrows to highlight the partition name and then press the space abr. So I'm picky so sue me. My only other thing I feel worth mentioning is that you can only have 4 active partitions at once as opposed to the Inner Drive which I think will handle more. If you have any questions that this has raised feel free to mail me. The Insane Hermit The Zip-Man qig@mentor.cc.purdue.edu Chris Eleveld p.s. you guys have sigs I have lots of names so there :-P
JWANKERL@UTCVM.BITNET ("Josef W. Wankerl") (01/15/90)
On Mon, 15 Jan 90 06:02:05 GMT The Insane Hermit said: > My only other thing I feel worth >mentioning is that you can only have 4 active partitions at once as opposed to >the Inner Drive which I think will handle more. If you have any questions that >this has raised feel free to mail me. > > The Insane Hermit > The Zip-Man > qig@mentor.cc.purdue.edu > Chris Eleveld The number of partitions is a limit imposed by ProDOS, not the hard drive or the software, I believe. Applied Engineering supplied a patch to ProDOS with my documentation to raise this limit to 8. /**********************************************************************\ |* Joe "Gonzo" Wankerl |*| The views expressed here are *| |* BITNET => JWANKERL@UTCVM |*| not necessarily yours... *| |* |*| ...but they should be. *| \**********************************************************************/
w0033@desire.wright.edu (01/20/90)
You might also want to look into Applied Ingenuity's Inner Drive. Like the AE hard drive it is an internal unit which replaces the GS power supply. The review I read was all raves about it, but I don't know anyone myself who has one. It also is not SCSI, but this doesn't matter much for internal drives. The price was $599 and $10 shipping at the time of the article. The reviewer also mentioned that a SCSI version was in the works, but he expected it to add $100 to the price.