Re: IIc + SmartPort behavior

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Scott Alfter <scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us> wrote:
> In article <211d7a86-7ed4-4992-9da9-52ffb5ea1980@s35g2000pra.googlegroups.com>,
> Robert Justice  <rjustice@internode.on.net> wrote:
>> Its very clear from this that it only supports 3 external drives of
>> various configurations. Maybe it is some sort of firmware imposed
>> limitation for this. seems strange.
> 
> Since the drives get their power from the computer, you can only hook up so
> many of them before you begin to overload the power supply.  I have no idea
> how much power the IIc+'s power supply can deliver, but I'd imagine it's no
> more than the 30-35W that the II/II+/IIe/IIGS power supplies can provide
> (and probably less, since there was much less capacity for expansion).

I'm sure that's the source of the physical drive limitation, and has no
bearing on the number of logical drives that can be mapped. 

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