Re: 2 IDE on A1200.

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From: Steve Bridges
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 23:33

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On Tue, 23 Jan 96, John Kennedy wrote:

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

I keep seeing this in amiga magazines, as well as "don't have the IDE lead
longer than 2 inches", but I've been using 2 IDE drives with an 18 inch
(boasting again :-)) lead for about 2 years now, and I swear I've never
had any trouble. Even copying lots of little files from one drive to the
other. The only "problem" I've seen is that adding a slave slows down
the master slightly. The power is no problem as my A1200T has a 200watt
PC power supply.

-- 
    Stephen Bridges   steve@bh01.demon.co.uk   A1200T/030/10MB/V.34
    "How do we tell the people in the white coats enough is enough"

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