Famous quotes(4 drives on a PC) (was:: Merced - and the ol' Unix story (was Re: OT, but info needed: RAM uprade))

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Mon Jan 18 18:49:40 1999

John Ruschmeyer wrote:
>
> > Nice, and sounds good, but often (as here found) just a
> > modern, urban legend - the IBM twist was just a genius
> > thing to keep part storage and maintainance costs low -
> > with the twisted cable you _can't_ install a wrong drive
> > as add on, and you _don't_ need to check any jumper or
> > what ever (supposed the drive is factory jumpered to #1)
>
> Those of us who own older Tandy's are well familiar with their
> drive setup- jumper all drive selects and pull pins on the cable.
>
> Same problem, alternative solution.

At least it let us have all four drives. (And let us continue with
having four hard drives on one ST506 chain).
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Received on Mon Jan 18 1999 - 18:49:40 GMT

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