Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mandrill!neoucom!wtm
From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: More HD on my 3b1.  How?
Summary: Hackers only
Keywords: Tired of 'Maytag Mode'
Message-ID: <937@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 88 06:38:58 GMT
References: <287@flatline.UUCP>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Ver 3.51, though not terribly publicized will let you custom enter
parameters grater than 67 meg,... but the harware won't let you do
it in reality becuase the dang HD controller chip ain't got enuf
brainz to recognize more than 67 megs.

There is a rumor that Convergent Technologies has a patch for their
incarnation of the "Safari" PC to enable bigger drives.  The mod
requires adding about 6 jumper wires on the motherboard, adding a
PAL decoder chip and swapping in a different HD controller.  In
theory, that should cost under $50 if you do the mod yourself.

I haven't tried doing this [yet] because I have a feeling that my
warranty isn't going to be worth shoot if I kludge the motherboard.

The 3b1/7300 has just a plain old ST506/412 disk interface (unless
they're doning something sneaky).

To answer the question, I don't think a 2nd drives is a practical
reality.  Kludging for one bigger drive is do-able.