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- From: paws@spam.cray.com (Daniel Baehr)
- Subject: Re: How may external drives can I hook up
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.065952.5812@walter.cray.com>
- Sender: paws@spam (Daniel Baehr)
- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <1992Aug18.064202.2895@Cadence.COM>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 06:59:52 CDT
- Lines: 59
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- In article <1992Aug18.064202.2895@Cadence.COM>, atul@Cadence.COM (Atul Srinivasan) writes:
- > Hello,
- > I have the following configuration:
- >
- > Amiga 2000 w/ GVP controller
- > 1 Internal HD
- > 1 Internal floppy Drive
- > 1 External Drive
- > AMAX Cartridge with MAc external drive.
- >
- > My question is how many external HD's can I hook up ?
- >
- > I believe I can have only four floppies, and 7 SCSI devices,
- > since the eight is taken by the controller/cpu itself (wrong ?)
-
- Right on the Hd's. Not sure about the floppies.
-
- >
- > So currently I have df0: and df3: as working floppies,
- > df1: reserved for the 5 1/4 inch bay, and df2: taken by Amax
- > and Mac drive.
-
- Does the AMax have a SCSI port??
-
- >
- > I assume that the partitions on the internal HD do not
- > count as multiple devices, only the physical device matters.
-
- Well they are a device as far as AmigaDos goes but only the physical
- device matters as far as the SCSI ID goes. The only other limitation
- you would run into is using up all your memory for buffers if you have
- too many partitions.
-
- >
- > So I should be able to hook up two more external drives to
- > my system ?
-
- IF you are talking HARD drives you can hook up 6 more.
-
- >
- > Have I missed something ? Got it wrong ?
- >
- > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
- >
- > Thanks.
- >
- > Atul
- >
- > atul@cadence.COM
- >
-
-
- Daniel Baehr
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