Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!sequent!crg5!crg3!dvp From: dvp@crg3.UUCP (Dan Vander Ploeg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: 2 Ext. Floppies on A500? Message-ID: Date: 11 Jan 90 16:42:11 GMT Sender: dvp@crg5.UUCP Distribution: comp Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Beaverton, Oregon Lines: 65 Since I received only 3 responses to this question from comp.sys.amiga, I'm appealing to the mighty wizards of .tech and the high gurus of C=. Come on, Commodore, you'd probably pick up some drive sales if you gave the OK for this: >> Since the aftermarket drives claim to draw only 1/4 the power of the old >> 1010, can I safely run two external drives on my 1-meg A500? The Master >> drive specifically says you can't, my local Amiga dealer says you can't. >> What gives? [By the way, I meant "two late-model external drives". Perhaps this would be safe, mixing one old and one new risky, and two old style smokes the power supply.???] =============================================================================== > From ogicse!unc.bitnet!UDOUGM Sat Dec 23 23:21:25 1989 > > I went through this same problem a year ago (so all the info here > is a year old). I called virtually all the floppy drive makers. > All of them said the same thing - you can safely add a second > external drive that doesn't have its own power supply, > but due to C= recommendation, we will in no way warrant or, > otherwise put our money where our mouth is, your machine. As > A500 power supplies have a reputation as being, ...... ahhh ......, > marginal, I gave M.A.S.T. the extra $25 for to get a floppy drive > with an external power supply. Struck me as cheap insurance. > > Doug McIntyre =============================================================================== > From galvey@sts.sts.COM Wed Jan 3 09:40:30 1990 > > I have had an A1010 drive (as df2:) and a CA-880 drive (as df1:) on > my A500 system for over a year now. I know that it is NOT RECOMMENDED but > I just tried it anyway! It has worked for me just fine! > I recently acquired an A590 hard drive and it works o.k. in this system > too. > > P.S. I don't do a lot of accessing of all the drives at the same time and it > can be quite annoying to hear the CLICKING of two or three drives at the same > time! =============================================================================== > From ogicse!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!mamba Fri Jan 5 07:50:30 1990 > > Well...I've got two external drives. One is an AIR drive, the other is > a CBM Amiga drive. They do work, however, only if the AIR drive is plugged > into the Amiga and the CBM drive into it. If I put the CBM drive first > then the machine crashes from lack of power. > > Go figure... > > Paul Deisinger =============================================================================== This is not what I would call a statistically valid sample. I NEED INPUT! --Dan Vander Pleog [dvp@sequent]