From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Nov 7 09:52:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA12778 for mobile-outgoing; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 09:52:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA12773 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 09:52:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA22565; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 10:52:32 -0700 (MST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA28513; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 10:52:31 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 10:52:31 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199711071752.KAA28513@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Brian N. Handy" Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk drives In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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... If you get it working, let me know. We couldn't find a way to do it earlier this week, and did it from scratch (using Windows in our case, but we couldn't even get two 'drives' hooked up at the same time. I suspect with dump/restore it would have worked, but I still would have had to go 'install' the stuff and partition the disk before-hand. Nate