Re: Apple//c newbie questions

[gkomatsu@Hawaii.Edu (Galen Tatsuo Komatsu)]

In article <1dgnsti.pylva31yy48u8N@dempson.actrix.gen.nz>,
David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
>Galen Tatsuo Komatsu <gkomatsu@Hawaii.Edu> wrote:
>>       Out of curiosity, where does the third 5.25 get mapped?
>Mitch said "UniDisk 3.5", which is a different beast.
>You can only have two 5.25" drives on a IIc, since it has a single disk
>controller (and thus two drive select signals).  One of them is built
>into the machine, so you can connect one externally.

	ahem...

-From: spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
-Date: 8 Oct 1998 05:53 EDT
-[...] Later versions of the IIc [...] will
-let you add up to two external 5.25 drives,

	...not that I'm screaming "you're wrong! you're wrong!  Mitchell
said two external 5.25s!!!!!!!"  Just defending why I asked my question.
Anyway, I was wondering that at the time since my GS has two 3.5s hooked
up and noticed that /RAM5 pushes one of them over to "slot" 2.


>In theory, you could connect 127 UniDisk 3.5 drives to the IIc, as well
>as one external 5.25" drive (at the end of the chain).
>In practice, the power supply and signal loading are major restrictions,
>and the firmware probably has a smaller artificial limit.  The limit
>would be about four drives in total.

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