[Coco] Disk drive questions?

[jimcox at miba51.com]

Hi All!

Spent some time re-reading the manuals and realize I 
should have done a better job of reading them the first 
time through, cause I think I would have stuck with the 
CoCo longer instead of abandoning it for the Atari ST I 
got long ago.

One thing I noticed while going through the exercises in 
the manual, was once I wound down, and started powering 
off everything, I noticed that the back of the drive, 
where the power supply is, was warmer than what I would 
have expected it to be.  Then again, this IS 20 year old 
technology that hasn't been powered up for some time.  Any 
thoughts?

I'd also like to ask again, how easy is it to drop a 3.5" 
drive into a system.  I know I have the answer some where 
in the thousands of emails I have saved, but I thought I'd 
save time and ask here.  Any pointers?

I know that someone has said that the maximum number of 
drives in a system is 3, though in the manual, it says the 
maximum drive number is 3, so if you start with 0, my 
logic says you can have 4 drives total.  Is it possible to 
have two different drive controllers in an MPI and toggle 
between them?

BTW, after all the typing, I now realize how good we got 
it now on current systems.  Boy, do I sure miss the "up 
arrow" key.  Cheers!

Jim

PS: Anyone heard from Carl Boll lately?