Date   : Sat, 23 Jun 2001 12:13:07 +0100
From   : "Chris Thornley" <C.J.Thornley@...>
Subject: Re: Using two disk drives together?

Hi,
RS components (Radio Spares) sell a crimp version of the reverse IDE
connector, I bought a 40pin hard drive version a few years back this will
allow you to plug you disk drive(34pin cable) into it so all you have to do
is make a lead up. I believe this is fairly expensive approx £4 might be
more. A second option is to make a PCB and use standard PCB mount IDC
headers. The downside is you have to make a box and the wire linking the
sockets on the PCB will be very small as is has to pass between pins to link
to the other connector. This would be less than 0.1inch spacing.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-bbc-micro@...
[mailto:owner-bbc-micro@...]On Behalf Of Kris Adcock
Sent: 22 June 2001 11:06
To: bbc-micro@...
Subject: [BBC-Micro] Using two disk drives together?


Morning all,

Anyone know what is involved getting two separate single drives to act as a
dual-drive? I was looking through an old Acorn User last night and noticed a
"Data Duck" for sale which did this. I imagine it's something along the
lines of duplicating most of the IDC pins to go to both drives, but then
doing to the drive select pins for one of the drives. Anyone done this?

Cheers,

Kris.