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Re: IIc + SmartPort behavior

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).

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