[coco] A couple of PC hardware questions

[David Hazelton]

peak at mail.polarcomm.com wrote:
> Dave
> Thanks for the info about cyberguys.
> A load resistor would be great for testing but once you have 
> enough coco drives connected you no longer need the heat 
> generator(ha ha). I used an old MFM drive as a load for two 
> reasons:
> 1 I already had some laying around.
> 2 The connector on those is made to plug into a PC power 
> supply.
> Eric
> Hardware Hacker 
> 
The load resistor plugs into a PC Power supply and is mountable, it is 
designed for PC Cases without motherboards.  Of course my "external hard 
drive" case is a old SCSI 6 port backplane that was heading for the 
trash connected to an AT Power supply.   It is ugly and noisy, but it's 
in the cellar office connected to my Linux box.  5 2GB drives using LVM 
to act as 1 20GB drive.  It works and it was Free...plus it was fun 
playing around with LVM under Linux and at first the Soft RAID that was 
built into Linux.

~David Hazelton