🚀 go-pugleaf

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.???]

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> 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

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> 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!

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> 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

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This is not what I would call a statistically valid sample.  

I NEED INPUT!

--Dan Vander Pleog [dvp@sequent]