Re: Daisychaining Drives on a //e

[cknoblo@gonix (Carl Knoblock)]

louiss@gate.net (Louis Schulman) writes:
: I have read quite a bit about daisychaining drives:  what controller 
: cards to use, what drives to
: use, what order to put the drives in, etc.  However, one aspect I have 
: never seen addressed. 
: 
: I have an enhanced //e with a 19-pin controller card and a DuoDisk.  
: Physically, how could I
: hook up another DuoDisk or Disk][s?  There are no more holes with 
: plugs.  Where would you
: attach anything?  Are there adapter cables or extra plugs?  What are 
: they and where to do you
: get them?  In other words, what are the mechanics of daisychaining 
: drives?  Please address all 
: the issues of attachment, such as use of both 19-pin and 20 pin drives, etc.
: 
: This probably seems obvious to you experts out there, but it is a 
: mystery to me.  Thanks for : your help.
: 
: Louis Schulman   louiss@gate.net
: *****Any opinions expressed herein are someone else's.  I wish I knew 
: whose.***** : 

First, please set you editor to <78 char. per line. I had to do a lot of 
editing to quote your message.

The DuoDisk controller will only support two 5.25" drives, so daisy 
chaining is not much of an issue there. No Apple II controller suports 
more than two 5.25" drives. That's why there is no daisy chain port on 
the DuoDisk. The Apple IIgs SmartPort connector will support as many as 
4 3.5" drives (but two of them would have to be UniDisk drives) and two 
5.25" drives, daisy chained. Disk II type drives, with the 20 pin header 
connector can be used with the proper adapters, but they don't really 
daisy chain.

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