[rescue] Lunchbox Floppy Bays (was RE: ultra purchases)

Koyote koyote at koyote.cx
Thu Apr 3 19:37:14 CST 2003


If you get anywhere with the dds drive idea, let me know. that could be useful.

"Sheldon T. Hall" <shel at cmhcsys.com> writes:

> A propos of purchasing Ultras and upgrading them, Joshua D. Boyd said ...
> > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 11:46:12PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > >
> > > That should probably be clarified as ``The U1 will take two 1" drives or
> > > one 1" and one 1.6" drive.''
> >
> > To clarify further, you in fact can put in 2 1.6" harddrives if you
> > mount one of them in the CD-ROM bay, which is what I did.
> 
> Which brings up a question ... is it feasible to mount another SCSI device
> in the otherwise-unused floppy bay of an LX/Classic lunchbox?  I was
> thinking of either a second HD or, after hacking the case, a DDS tape drive.
> I realize heat would be a concern with the HD, but I'm thinking that modern
> drives produce less of it than the ones that came in the LX ....
> 
> -Shel
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