Re: 2 IDE on A1200.

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From: John Kennedy
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 16:58

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rcolbert@oasis.novia.net (Bob Colbert) wrote:

>Martin Leslie Baker (mlb@rekab.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>: You are supposed to be able to use 2 IDE drives on an A1200.  How do I do
>: it.  Note that I only want to do this temporarily.
>: 

>There should be jumpers on the drives, you need to jumper one as a 
>"master" and one as a "slave". 

If using two 2.5 inch IDE drives then good luck -- setting one up as
master and one as slave is almost impossible.

If using two 3.5 inch drives: don't do it! The IDE port is unbuffered
and athiough one drive works well, two is risking it. Plus the power
consumption of course.

johnk

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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 16:58:28 GMT
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