Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 03:35:49 +0900 From: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh <itojun@itojun.org> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk drives Message-ID: <3697.878927749@coconut.itojun.org> In-Reply-To: nate's message of Fri, 07 Nov 1997 10:52:31 MST. <199711071752.KAA28513@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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>> 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. it is quite simple. buy this kind of product (pcmcia-to-ide harddisk interface), and perform a filesystem dump from wd0 to wd2. http://www.sparco.com/cgi-bin/product_lookup/catalog_.search?spn=A764324&show_discounts=0 i believe there are several products available for this, but i can't remember who manufactures this. itojun
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