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From: gberg@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Greg Berg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: More HD on my 3b1.  How?
Message-ID: <7010002@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Jan 88 17:46:44 GMT
References: <287@flatline.UUCP>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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% / hpcupt1:comp.sys.att / andys@shlepper.ATT.COM (a.b.sherman) writes
% Your best bet is to put the largest drive possible on the system.  That
% is 80Meg (67Meg formatted) unless you do the hardware change.  You can't
% do anything else, because the hardware won't support it.  The /dev
% entries for a second drive are there for the Convergent miniframes used
% to develop software for the beast.
% ----------

	According to AT&T online support, the power supply installed in
	the 7300 with 20MB is not sufficient to feed 40MB or 80MB disks.

	Has anyone done a straight swap of the hard disk with success?
	If so, was the new disk a "fast" or slow variant?