Re: Daisychaining 5.25 " Drives

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Robert O Greenawalt" <av261@lafn.org> wrote in
message C12AD6B1.239DE%av261@lafn.org">news:C12AD6B1.239DE%av261@lafn.org...
:
: I have several of the beige plastic Apple 5.25"
: disk drives that work on my Apple //e computer.
: Who knows the limit of daisychaining such drives
: with one controller card? Are four daisychained
: disk drives too much for one controller card to
: handle? I don't want to zap the works by an
: overload.
: Thanks...
:
: -- Bob Greenawalt in Rosemead CA 91770, which
: is ten miles east of Los Angeles on Highway I-10.

The Apple 5.25" drive controller allows 2 drives.
There are 3rd party controllers that allow 4, but,
they map drives 3 and 4 into another slot, so you
lose that slot for other uses. Also, only certain
programs will recognize drives 3 and 4, AFAIK.

Bill Garber
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Co-owner - GSE-Reactive.com
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