#External disk drive
When I bought my A500 years ago, I also bought an A1010 drive. The
"manual" that came with it said that you shouldn't cascade A1010s together as
they would put to much strain on the power supply. It said to use an external
drive with it's own power supply if you wanted to use more than 1. I've called
several dealers looking for such a drive, but nobody has one-or has ever heard
of one. Were such drives made? If they were, what were they called?
Has anyone had any experience with putting more than a singal external
floppy on an A500? Can they be cascaded without damaging the power supply?
In a worst case situation, I could always cobble up a supply for the first
drive in the system, since they only seem to want +5 and +12 V., but I'd like
to avoid that if it isn't needed. Yes, I'm using the stock A500 power supply,
and it's driving the computer and a Supra RAM with 4 megs of memory.
Barry