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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???

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.

To go out on a limb here, if these newer external drives really do draw
1/4 less power than the older ones, then the answer would be "yes, of
*course* you could use two of them. Probably." :-)

More specifically, the important question is how much power is drawn, not how
many drives are connected. If your system works with external drive X, then
it should work with 2 external drives of type Y that draw less combined power 
than X did.
	Doug
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