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Tape Drive and a second IDE hard drive

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From: Scott Harris
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:50
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Hi, 

 I am thinking about getting a second IDE hard drive.  My current configuration is
that I have 2 floppies, and a single 80Meg (18ms) IDE hard drive.  Is it pretty
simple to get another IDE drive and plug it right in?  I heard that I may have to
worry about putting the faster one as the boot drive, or something like that.

 Also, I am thinking about getting a tape backup drive.  Does anybody have any
good recommendations?  Things that I'm concerned about are:
	* Speed
	* Price (of course!)
	* Being able to easily plug it into my system
 The last point above is crucial.  Does these tape drives come with their own 
card, or do they plug into the existing card (mine is going to be full), or can I
use one of those fancy parallel port SCSI devices?

 Any help is much appreciated!!  Please send replies to 'gt8389a@prism.gatech.edu'
or post a follow-up article.

 Thanks again,

Scott Harris

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Scott Harris
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
gt8389a@prism.gatech.edu
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