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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!lampi
- From: lampi@halcyon.com (Michael Lampi)
- Subject: Re: Followup Adding a second disk etc ...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.175528.19636@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
- References: <1993Jan21.132139.13556@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:55:28 GMT
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- antoon@dutentb.et.tudelft.nl (Antoon Frehe) writes:
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- >Hi,
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- >Thanks for all the replies. i must admit, i'd seen this jumper program
- >somewhere before, but now i just hadn't thought of it.
-
- >I haven't tried everything yet, but people are starting to complain the
- >Apollo is too often of the air because i'm busy playing with it's disks.
- >There's a few strange things. When i use the jumper program, the layout of
- >the WD7000 board doesn't look a bit like the my WD7000V-ASE (to be exact).
-
- You have the WD7000 board of which we all speak.
-
- >Also David Krowitz says the WD7000 has 3 connectors. Mine has 4.
- >2 34 pin connectors and 2 20 pin connectors. Is it so that i have to
- >chain the cables from one disk to the other or cab or must i use
- >seperate cables from the controller to the disks?
-
- The other 34 pin connector is for a floppy drive.
-
- >Most disturbing however is a line from the jumper program when i look
- >at the Micropolis 155 Mb drive. It reads..
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- >155 Mb Drives are Not Supported for Multiple Disk Configuration.
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- Supported is not always the same as "works with".
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