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- From: Steve Bridges <steve@bh01.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: 2 IDE on A1200.
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 96 23:33:24 GMT
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- On Tue, 23 Jan 96, John Kennedy wrote:
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- JK> If using two 3.5 inch drives: don't do it! The IDE port is unbuffered
- JK> and athiough one drive works well, two is risking it. Plus the power
- JK> consumption of course.
-
- I keep seeing this in amiga magazines, as well as "don't have the IDE lead
- longer than 2 inches", but I've been using 2 IDE drives with an 18 inch
- (boasting again :-)) lead for about 2 years now, and I swear I've never
- had any trouble. Even copying lots of little files from one drive to the
- other. The only "problem" I've seen is that adding a slave slows down
- the master slightly. The power is no problem as my A1200T has a 200watt
- PC power supply.
-
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- Stephen Bridges steve@bh01.demon.co.uk A1200T/030/10MB/V.34
- "How do we tell the people in the white coats enough is enough"
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