Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!umich!terminator!shogun!msiskin From: msiskin@shogun.us.cc.umich.edu (Marc Siskin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: 2 Ext. Floppies on A500? Summary: How about 3 ext. Floppies Message-ID: <1990Jan15.140613.7494@terminator.cc.umich.edu> Date: 15 Jan 90 14:06:13 GMT References: <1006@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <617@xdos.UUCP> Sender: news@terminator.cc.umich.edu Reply-To: msiskin@shogun.UUCP (Marc Siskin) Organization: University of Michigan Language Lab, Ann Arbor Lines: 52 In article <617@xdos.UUCP> doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) writes: >In article <1006@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes: >>In , dvp@crg3.UUCP (Dan Vander Ploeg) writes: >> [ comments and questions about running 2 ext. drives deleted] >> >>What exactly are you looking for? CBM specifically states their position in the >>documentation. You are free, as a user, to do anything you want with your >>system. CBM is free, as a manufacturer to tell you what they will or will not >>officially support. >> >>You now have all the input you need to make a decision as to whether you will >>add an unsupported peripheral or not. > >Come now. He's looking for info to let him know how likely it is that >he could actually put two drives on his system, in practice. You tell >him Commodore's Official Position on the subject and explain to him the >concept of free will. Are you mad at him specifically or did you >just get up on the wrong side of the bed??? > >I thought his questions were reasonable. Giving him a hard time is >uncalled for. There's lots of people who would probably try a few >external drives if they thought there was (say) a 90% chance it would >work, even if Commodore recommends against. > >To go out on a limb here, if these newer external drives really do draw >1/4 less power than the older ones, then the answer would be "yes, of >*course* you could use two of them. Probably." :-) > >More specifically, the important question is how much power is drawn, not how >many drives are connected. If your system works with external drive X, then >it should work with 2 external drives of type Y that draw less combined power >than X did. > Doug >-- >Doug Merritt {pyramid,apple}!xdos!doug >Member, Crusaders for a Better Tomorrow Professional Wildeyed Visionary At the First Ami Expo in Chicago I brought my A500 to the Usenet Party so that people could upgrade their PD collections. Because there were so many people who wanted software (and it didn't hurt that Carolyn Scheppner and Lauren Brown were making copies of the latest Gamma Version of 1.3 for developers there) I was running 3 external drives to make copies. Everytime someone from CBM walked by the set-up they shook thier heads. I was using 2 small 'low power' drives that were purchased at the show and my A1010 drive. It may have helped that several people were fanning air into my power supply (the light weight switching version) but it did work. I also regularly use 2 external drives at home now that I am the Librarian of the local user Group. Marc Siskin Msiskin@shogun.us.cc.umich.edu USERHEBE@umichub