Woz IIgs w/ AE Vulcan 20mb HDD

CelGen said:

Again, give it a 32mb Compact Flash card and it's happy.

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yah, the hardrive ended up smoking, so I took it out and I removed the vulcan parts for the time being.. I need to get a CF card thingy.. I dont know where to find one!!  

I have a bunch!

I'll have to look at them, but some are 32 MB, 64 MB and maybe a couple are 128 MB.

Are there any brands/models that are known to work reliably?

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I used a card branded by Kodak but one with Canon or Nikon branding might also work. On paper any CF card 32mb and under will work but god knows how modern cards behave with controllers this old. It's once you go over that I can't really say as you exceed the maximum partition size for ProDOS.

The Vulcan supports multiple partitions, so 32MB isn't a hard limit. The problem is that the firmware only supports a limited amount of CHS combinations, similar to the old BIOS drive types before "User Defined" came about. I wouldn't be surprised if the table is close to or identical to them. The Vulcan ROM is completely inflexible and refuses to work if it detects something not matching its on board drive table.

http://webpages.charter.net/danrollins/techhelp/0054.HTM

http://vintage-pc.tripod.com/types.html

Here is the semi-official Vulcan drive list: http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ground.icaen.uiowa.edu/MiscInfo/Drives/vulcan.specs

I need to get the CF card first, aren't they unavailable?!   I know I can get the actual CF card, I am speaking of the adapter for the IIgs....  here are some pictures for your enjoyment of the hoard of software/books I got with this WOZ IIgs

If you search ebay for something like "cf card lot" you can often come up with auctions for a dozen different cf cards of low capacity for fairly cheap.  Maybe one or two will work...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/32MB-SanDisk-CompctFlash-CF-Card-Industrial-Grade-SDCFB-32-201-80-100-Genuine-/261574063941?hash=item3ce7077745

This one might work? The listing's for a single card, though.

c

These are the ones that I have that work with my controllers. The 16s and 32s work with the 40mb EPROM but the 64s only work with the Vulcan Gold EPROM.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9r6vH-4NK4NRXpSMnlwSWh4SzA&authuser=0

NJRoadfan said:

http://ae.applearchives.com/all_apple_iis/vulcan/

Also, I wouldn't even bother with the Apple RAM card. ggLabs sells a 4MB card on ebay, no worries about running out of memory with one of these. If you need to get a disk image to the IIgs, use ADTPro (or the FloppyEmu if you have one). Power Mac manual inject floppy drives aren't all that reliable at making 800k disks.

The Vulcan controller is notoriously picky about what type of drive is connected to it. Very few CF cards will actually work with it.

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I got the 4mb RAM card from gglabs and I can testify that it is awesome.  Well worth the money.