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From: w0033@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple Thoughts
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Date: 20 Jan 90 19:52:52 GMT
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I was unable to find any technical data on how individual drives are accessed
through the smartport. Maybe it's some sort of company secret or something.
I suspect that there are a couple select lines which go high or low to tell
which drive is expected to respond, but I really don't know. I could guess how
I would do it, but of coourse it would all be conjecture. I have heard that the
drive port itself can handle 128 drives with up to 4 Gig per drive, but the
current GS software and other hardware have a problem with this. I would guess
that ideally someone could design a hard drive that plugs right into the disk
port on a chain.