Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!xanth!mcnc!rti!xyzzy!giants!poirier From: poirier@giants.dg.com (Charles Poirier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Second external floppy Summary: A1000 ok to chain 2nd drive Message-ID: <4034@xyzzy.UUCP> Date: 10 Mar 89 19:23:36 GMT References: <5160027@hplsla.HP.COM> <1655@leah.Albany.Edu> Sender: usenet@xyzzy.UUCP Reply-To: poirier@dg-rtp.dg.com (Charles Poirier) Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC. Lines: 9 In article <1655@leah.Albany.Edu> jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (J.Cisek) writes: >> > I would like to attatch a second external floppy to my Amiga 1000. When I >As I recall the manual that comes with the A500 or maybe the A1010 >specifically states that you SHOULDN'T daisy-chain the A1010 drive. I'm The A500 has a good reason -- the power supply is tightly budgeted. The A1000 was built with a much more generous power supply which can easily support two or even three daisy-chained external floppies. Charles Poirier