Re: The //gs's power supply ...

[pbauer@athena.mit.edu (Paul H Bauer)]

>  I have an apple //gs which I'd like to add a HD... I've bought a
>scsi card, and a seagate drive mechanism... the question is:  Do I
>have enough spare power in my gs's stock power supply to power the
>driver, or is it best to provide the drive with it's own dedicated
>supply. 
>
>  I don't currently have the specs for the drive, but i believe it's
>maximum power useage is 13W.  The GSs supply is capabale of supplying
>38W, is there enough left for the drive??
>
>Any advice would be appreciated.
>
>calum

	This is interesting because I have done what you are trying to do 
except I used a 40 meg conner GO drive and that works like a charm. I suspect 
the seagate will not work because if you check the start up transient when the
drive is coming up to speed the current draw will be to large for the standard
GS supply. The heavy duty supplies might work.

	The setup I built is a 2e to GS conversion with the hard drive located
under the keyboard and a RamFast vs. c to interface with the GS. This makes an
almost portable GS....if only I could find a liquid crystal display I'd be all
set.Since the drive is from a laptop I don't think I'll experience the drive
problems friends have had from transporting their systems to user-group
meetings.Best of luck and let me know by E-mail if you have any questions.

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