From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Nov 7 10:49:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA16083 for mobile-outgoing; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 10:49:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA16070 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 10:49:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost.cybercity.dk [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA03212; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 19:48:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Nate Williams cc: "Brian N. Handy" , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk drives In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 07 Nov 1997 10:52:31 MST." <199711071752.KAA28513@rocky.mt.sri.com> Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 19:48:13 +0100 Message-ID: <3210.878928493@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199711071752.KAA28513@rocky.mt.sri.com>, Nate Williams writes: >> 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. I found a ISA card that has holes & connector for a 2.5" drive, pretty neat for this kind of stuff. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."