>>I told him that I thought only two IDE devices to the starmax,period. > >I think you're right. > >>Now the fellow who was selling me this stuff thought that a IDE driver >>usually will handle two connections per cable... > >Yeah, TODAY it will, but not "back in the day," at least not with the >designs the Mac clones used. PCs for years were also the same way---one >device per cable. > >-David
A contemporary of the 1996 StarMax, the PC with Pentium CPU, has no problem with the two-drives-per-cable architecture; one master, one slave. I'd be hard pressed to believe, short of a personal experiment on MY StarMax, that you won't be able to place two drives on the hard disk cable and leave the CD ROM in....... Jeff -- StarMax is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> StarMax list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/starmax.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/starmax%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
