Re: Chaining floppy drives to a IIgs

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

David Empson wrote:

>(If you have more than one disk port available, e.g. a disk controller
>card in addition to the built-in disk port, then you shouldn't have more
>than about six floppy drives connected in total, counting all disk
>ports, as it might overload the power supply.)

I thought that the Disk ][ Controller powered down itself and the drives
pretty completely.

I would not expect any problems unless too many drives are _in use_
simultaneously.

-michael

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