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In <617@xdos.UUCP>, doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) writes:
>In article <1006@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>>In <DVP.90Jan11084211@crg3.UUCP>, dvp@crg3.UUCP (Dan Vander Ploeg) writes:
>> [ comments and questions about running 2 ext. drives deleted]
>>
>>What exactly are you looking for? CBM specifically states their position in the
>>documentation. You are free, as a user, to do anything you want with your
>>system. CBM is free, as a manufacturer to tell you what they will or will not
>>officially support.
>>
>>You now have all the input you need to make a decision as to whether you will
>>add an unsupported peripheral or not.
>
>Come now. He's looking for info to let him know how likely it is that
>he could actually put two drives on his system, in practice. You tell
>him Commodore's Official Position on the subject and explain to him the
>concept of free will. Are you mad at him specifically or did you
>just get up on the wrong side of the bed???

Neither one Doug. I anwered in the same spirit as I saw the question. He seemed
to me to be asking for blessing to go ahead and do it, and be supported doing
so. If I misinterpreted that intetntion, so be it. I handle trouble calls all
day, and along with them come questions just like that, phrased like that, and
I have to say essentially the same thing.

>I thought his questions were reasonable. Giving him a hard time is
>uncalled for. There's lots of people who would probably try a few
>external drives if they thought there was (say) a 90% chance it would
>work, even if Commodore recommends against.

No hard time intended.

-larry

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