[Coco] 4 ide hard drive coco1 setup

[Steve Pedersen]

I totally agree on the safty issue, CoCo hardware is precious. Don't risk
it.

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 2:32 PM, rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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>
> 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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