Re: Moving a Focus drive external: termination?

[Dave McIntyre <davemci@ameritech.net>]

"mystix"@direct.ca@direct.ca wrote:
> 
> In <20000309225300.02583.00001107@ng-fg1.aol.com>, supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes:
> >Kris Jones <razor@speakeasy.org> wrote:
> 
> >>Or is this card hardwired for only one device, specifically the Conner drive?
> >
> >Nope.  You can use IDE drives up to 2GB in size.  You need the
> >2.5" size to put the drive ON the card.  3.5" ones should work,
> >but they would need to be outside the IIGS in a separate case
> >to fit.
> 
> On a separate note, on PC's at least you can only chain 2 IDE drives. I don't know
> if the Focus has this limitation anyways, but if you got a 2GB drive, I don't think
> you'll need another drive. How does it supply power? I figure if someone could
> get a Vulcan/InnerDrive/Pegasus case one could use a regular 3.5 format drive
> inside a GS.

I think the 2 drive limit is also an IDE limit since you can
only have a master and slave setting on the drive itself. Anyway
a PC can have upto 4 IDE devices these days.