vertically-mounted floppies

[andrew.d.hay]

In article <1990May31.035625.18728 at hybrid.UUCP> mdapoz at hybrid.UUCP (Mark Dapoz) writes:
"In article <23640 at rphroy.UUCP> rhaar at rcsac1.UUCP (Bob Haar CS50) writes:
">In article <1990May28.010513.3392 at hybrid.UUCP> mdapoz at hybrid.UUCP (Mark Dapoz) writes:
">4) If I do move the floppy drive out, can I put a second hard drive
">in its place? (assuming the second drive mod and a 3b1 power supply)
"
"Yes you can, I did, but be aware that the 3B1 power supply can't really
"handle the load which two hard drives put on it.  Take it from experience,
"I blew a 3B1 power supply after trying to do just that (it worked for 
"about a month though :-).  I now have my two drives being powered by
"an additional 300W power supply which is also in the new case.

it depends on just what drives you have in mind...

the computer shopper had a big feature on hard drives a few months ago.
one of the columns in their *very*complete* table of models was power
rating; it showed miniscribe 67Mb drives at 29w, ex-cdc wren-II hh 40Mb
(my present drive) at 18w, and ex-cdc swift (3.5") 88Mb at 9w.  i plan
to install two of these in my 7300, just as soon as i can get up the
money...

i have no quarrel with mark's *real* argument, that you must observe
the power supply's rating, which is 12v at 5a for the 3b1 (anyone know
what else draws 12v?).  just be aware that drive power consumption
varies *widely*!

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