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Re: Daisychaining 5.25 " Drives



Knut Roll-Lund wrote:
a2aviator@gmail.com wrote:

David Empson wrote:

Knut Roll-Lund <kr-lund@nogarbage.online.no> wrote:

Someone wrote earlier that a duodrive could be daisychained... I guess
the 5.25" controller allows for this. Making it more than two drives but
of course only one daisychain.


I haven't seen a DuoDisk in the last decade and never owned one, so I
don't recall whether it has a daisy-chain connector.

It doesn't.

The Duo Disk has one 25 pin connector. As earlier mentioned, similar to
that of the Apple ///.
IT can be daisy chained in that it is the last device. It lends itself
to this by the very fact that there is only one connector. Connecting
the DuoDisk to the back of a prior 5.25" drive usually nets you it's
first drive working when drive #2 in the chain is accessed.


Would you have the use of both the drives in the duodrive if it was chained after another drive? Anyone? I'd guess not.

Nope, just the first drive, since "drive 2 select/enable" would never
be asserted (assuming you mean chained after a 5.25" drive).

-michael

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