aja@i.cc.purdue.edu (Miek Rowan) (03/15/88)
Anyone know of a card that'll let me use a standard AT drive as an external or some such (its on a compaq portable 286)? Twenty meg is *not* enough to do *anything* remotly useful :-) Actually its the machine I use at work and we have 3 30 meg AT drives sitting in a closet going to waste. miek
berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu (03/17/88)
I'd expect most modern disk controllers to let you use the drives externally. If the Compaq controller can accomodate two drives, there's no reason you couldn't run a cable to the 30 megabyte drive to use it externally. You'll have to run an external power cable too. Basically, you'll have a separate control cable, and a daisy-chained data cable between the internal and external drives, and controller. Mike Berger Department of Statistics Science, Technology, and Society University of Illinois berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu {ihnp4 | convex | pur-ee}!uiucuxc!clio!berger