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Date:      Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:57:36 -0800
From:      John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
To:        "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: disk drives
Message-ID:  <19971107165736.37207@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.971107085441.30541D-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>; from Brian N. Handy on Fri, Nov 07, 1997 at 08:56:23AM -0800
References:  <Pine.OSF.3.96.971107085441.30541D-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com>

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Brian N. Handy scribbled this message on Nov 7:
> Question for the class...is it possible to plug two disk drives into your
> typical laptop at the same time?  (In particular the TP560.)  I need to
> build another drive for a guy, but I'd like to just plug it into the
> innards of my thinkpad, copy the salient bits over and then swap it into
> his machine.  It wouldn't even have to *fit* inside the case for this.
> Seems like a stretch, but sure would be nice...

with all these inventive ideas... I feel that I should throw in my
opinion...

buy a couple converters from the laptop mini connector to the normal
40pin IDC connector.. then throw both hard drives into a normal desktop
machine...

hope this helps...  ttyl..

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