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Re: Hard Drives for Apple IIGS

Subject: Re: Hard Drives for Apple IIGS
From: jmk3@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Jay M. Krell)
Date: 19 Nov 92 22:33:11 GMT
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>Subject: Re: Hard Drives for Apple IIGS

 >Powering a quantum (or possibly any) hard drive off your disk >port can be
>detrimental to a stock power supply.  After a few months mine
>refused to give the drive enough power to start up.
> Now i have a heavy duty supply and i could actually use the old 
>supply to run the drive if i could find the right connector for the 
>drive.

True, powering a hard drive off the floppy port can run down the power supply, but that is _not_ the normal method of powering hard drives. Most have their own power supplies. I've seen a number of anti-recommendations for the floppy port-powered hard drives.

 -Jay, jay.krell@cornell.edu

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