Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Hooking up a third drive...how? Message-ID: <1110@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 6 Feb 90 11:17:11 GMT Lines: 43 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <22152@unix.cis.pitt.edu>, jcfst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John C. Fossum) writes: >In article <90036.235819IMS103@PSUVM.BITNET>, IMS103@psuvm.psu.edu (Ian Matthew Smith) writes: >> In articel <22123@unix.cis.pitt.edu>, jcfst@unix.cis.pitt.edu >> (John C. Fossum) writes: >> >> > How do you hook a third drive up to an Amiga 500? I have all of >> >> Hmmm, you mean you have a external disk drive with no pass-through? >> What brand? You should have no trouble adding another drive. Just >> buy one that has a pass through (the A1010 does and so do most others) >> and plug the 1010 or whatever brand you purchace and plug your existing >> >> Ian Smith > > I tried this. I have two A1010 drives. I thought they would daisy >chain with no problem. I go into DPaint ]I[ and there is no recognition >of a third drive. DPaint III doesn't even have any recognition of the current directory, requiring you to go through hoops to get where you already are. It would surprise me to no end if they ever come out with a decent file requester. > I doesn't even access when I cold boot! Do I need >more power? As in power supply? Not necessarily more power, but perhaps just power. Not all external drives pass the 12 volts through to the next in line. You could try swapping the order of the two external drives to see if the other one passes the 12 volts. You could try adding the power passthrough yourself. If you go for any of these, you can then see if you have enouh power. Sometimes you will, sometimes you won't, it depends entirely on the power supply and A500 _you_ have. The best all around is to power the drive externally. -larry -- This life is a test. It is only a test. If this had been a real life, you would have been told where to go and what to do. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+