Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: 2 Ext. Floppies on A500? Message-ID: <1038@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 14 Jan 90 11:20:38 GMT Lines: 41 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <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??? Neither one Doug. I anwered in the same spirit as I saw the question. He seemed to me to be asking for blessing to go ahead and do it, and be supported doing so. If I misinterpreted that intetntion, so be it. I handle trouble calls all day, and along with them come questions just like that, phrased like that, and I have to say essentially the same thing. >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. No hard time intended. -larry -- "Cavett Emptor - Let the talk show host beware!" - Evan Marcus +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+