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Re: Advice on adding a second hard disk

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From: The Renaissance Man
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 23:36
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erdichen@uclink.berkeley.edu (Erdi Chen) wrote:
] In article <2ji223$bkg@nntp2.stanford.edu>,
] Dale Buford Thompson <thomper@leland.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
] >I added a WD340 last week to a Conner 210.  Realize it
] >will take a while if you do it yourself. It took me about
] >4 hours including cleaning, and experimentation.
] 
] It doesn't take me more than 10 minutes to take my system apart and 
] reasamble it (I still have my case open since I just added 32 meg of 
] ram.)  I use SCSI and have a CD-ROM and one harddisk and usually 
] floppies.  Software setup takes me a couple more minutes since I use SCSI.

It took me about an hour to add a fourth drive to my IDE array, a month
or so back.  However, part of this was because I had to do interesting
tricks with mounting rails, and some minor modification of the case (a bit
of filing for screw clearance), in order to fit 4 1" drives into a module
designed for 3 half-height devices.

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From: alaric@netcom.com (The Renaissance Man)
Subject: Re: Advice on adding a second hard disk
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Keywords: hard disk, adding
Organization: Tessier Systems Group
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