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Greetings, it seems that John Thornton wrote;
> Has anyone managed to get two 2.5" IDE drives running on an A1200 ?

I've got two 3.5" IDEs connected at the moment. I wouldn't power two
2.5" drives from the internal IDE interface though, there /may/ be too
much current being drawn thru the motherboard.

> I'm using a Quantum "go drive" 270M as master and Toshiba 80 meg
> as slave. Both are recognised correctly when used on their own.
> But only the Quantum is found when connected in series.

Some drives are not compatible with others, other than that, it should
only be a matter of getting the drive jumpers configured correctly. This
should be in the documentation or be printed on the drive.

> I appreciate that the Amiga pretends that the drive is a SCSI,
> but how can I simulate a chain ?

As above. IDE normally supports up to two drives.

> There is probably an easy way to this, but I haven't found it yet.

> I had a look on aminet but could not see anything related.

> If it is not possible, I'll sell the 80meg Tosh.

Try swapping your master/slave drives, one may prefer to be the master,
or may have a quicker spin up time than the other.


Ken...................

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