[Coco] 4 ide hard drive coco1 setup

[rcrislip]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 23:01:59 +0000 (UTC)
Mark Marlette <mmarlette at frontiernet.net> wrote:

> Hot swapping of IDE drives is not allowed...many have tried and
> fried........ 
> Mark Marlette
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I would have added one more verb, Many have tried, fried, and died 8-)


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> ________________________________
>  From: rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com>
> To: Steve Pedersen <coco at maltedmedia.com> 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 4:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] 4 ide hard drive coco1 setup
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> 
> I can do a quick video if u want but it's really more for the wow
> factor. It's three IDE drives stacked ontop of each other and duct
> taped to the top of an old early 2000,s drive bay mountable Romtec
> switcher. It's more form than function since the Romtec is designed
> to only switch ide drives when powered off. I guess this was a safety
> function that would prevent damage to your drives or computer. Anyway
> I doubt that HDB-DOS would allow hot swapping of hard drives anyway.
> I really don't want to risk my computer by trying. Anyway I could be
> wrong about that.
> 
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> From: Steve Pedersen
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 4:40 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Coco] 4 ide hard drive coco1 setup
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> 
> You should do a vid on Utube.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 12:34 PM, rietveld rietveld
> <rietveldh at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I picked up 2 ide Hard drives at the value village thrift store
> > last night. I hooked them up with my other 2. Now I have a 256
> > drive Master and triple 256 drive Slave setup that is selectable
> > via a Romtec IDE 3 slot selector switch
> >
> > Storage overkill, but looks cool
> >
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> > Sent from my BlackBerry Passport Red Edition.
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