Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!ulysses!allegra!alice!wilber
From: wilber@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: More HD on my 3b1.  How?
Summary: Swapping disks on the 3B1
Message-ID: <7640@alice.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 88 02:50:07 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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Posted: Wed Jan 20 21:50:07 1988

I wrote:
> I only have a 3b1 but I understand that there are a few important differences
> between the 3b1 and the 7300.  One of them is that on the 3b1 the power to the
> disk is taken directly from the power supply, whereas on the 7300 the power to
> the disk is routed through the motherboard (or so I have heard).  So just
> because it's safe to put a big disk on the 3b1 doesn't mean it's necessarily
> safe to do so on the 7300.

Well I was right about how power is routed in the 7300 but was apparently
over cautious -- Craig Votava just posted a long article in unix-pc.general
and att.sys.unixpc about upgrading his 7300, and among other things he put
in a moby (86 Mb) disk.  So it seems to be an okay thing to do.

Bob Wilber  wilber@research.att.com   ihnp4!gauss!wilber

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