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- From: johnk@infosys2.thegap.com (John Kennedy)
- Newsgroups: demon.tech.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: 2 IDE on A1200.
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 16:58:28 GMT
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- rcolbert@oasis.novia.net (Bob Colbert) wrote:
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- >Martin Leslie Baker (mlb@rekab.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- >: You are supposed to be able to use 2 IDE drives on an A1200. How do I do
- >: it. Note that I only want to do this temporarily.
- >:
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- >There should be jumpers on the drives, you need to jumper one as a
- >"master" and one as a "slave".
-
- If using two 2.5 inch IDE drives then good luck -- setting one up as
- master and one as slave is almost impossible.
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- If using two 3.5 inch drives: don't do it! The IDE port is unbuffered
- and athiough one drive works well, two is risking it. Plus the power
- consumption of course.
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- johnk
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