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From: a23@mindlink.UUCP (Joel Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Second external floppy
Message-ID: <101@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 89 00:52:50 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> wn0e+ writes:
> 
> MSG-ID: <oY3KJWy00XoC8210Zy@andrew.cmu.edu>
> Posted: 2 Mar 89 16:01:38 GMT
> 
> Org.  : Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
> 
> I would like to attatch a second external floppy to my Amiga 1000.  When I
> try
> this by simply daisy chaining  two A1010s, df1: works, but I get df2: bad, or
> no
> reaction at all.  It looks like the power is not passed through or something.
> 
> Can anyone tell me what I have to do to get this to work?
> Thanks.
> 
> Bill Nichols
> arpa  wn0e@andrew.cmu.edu
> bitnet  Nichols@fnal, or Nichols@cmphys


Take your external floppy into a service center and have them hook up the power
to the port.

The early external floppies didn't have the power hooked up for some reason,
but all it takes now is a few minutes of a techie's time and probably about 25
bucks in service charges :-).

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