Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 14:27:42 -0500 From: "Gary T. Corcoran" <garycorc@idt.net> To: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh <itojun@itojun.org> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk drives Message-ID: <34636BAE.7BB0750D@idt.net> References: <3697.878927749@coconut.itojun.org>
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Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh wrote: > > >> 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. > I just found something in a Computer Discount Warehouse (CDW) catalog. I don't think it's what I was referring to in my previous post, but it's even better becaue it's not bundled with a drive. It is a product as described above, called "Easy Move Data Transfer kit", made by CMS Peripherals, $99.96, CDW #95772 Gary
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