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2 hard drives in Pismo?
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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My pismo has returned from repair with a new 20GB hard disk. They're also going to send me back the old disk, so I can copy stuff over (they made a right mess of it and didn't copy half of my stuff, so I complained).
Thing is, after the copy I'll have a spare 20GB laptop-size hard disk. Since I don't have another computer, there's no home for it anywhere. So I wondered if I could mount it in the place where the DVD drive goes and use 2 at once?
Are there 2 IDE connectors on the motherboard? Or can a special cable be purchased to use the two drives on one connector? What about power?
Finally, does MacOS X support RAID level 0?
Amorya
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This isn't really a "mod" you just have to get an expansion bay hard drive enclosure and put the drive in it. I used two drives in my Pismo for quite a while.
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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Originally posted by Icruise:
This isn't really a "mod" you just have to get an expansion bay hard drive enclosure and put the drive in it. I used two drives in my Pismo for quite a while.
Yeah but it's not quite a mobile solution. If only there were a way to have two internal HDs.
Oh, and for a neat Pismo hack check out:
http://reviews.macnn.com/review.php?id=33
Brad
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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Sure, you can buy an expansion bay hard drive for the second bay, or buy a PC card hard drive for the PCMCIA slot. I grabbed a 10gb Toshiba Datapak drive last month and leave it in 24x7 (same drive as the iPod uses).
I have a 30gb internal
a 20gb Expansion bay
10 gb PC card drive for a total of 60 the hard way
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Owner of a MacBook Pro and various other Macs.
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Well how about that! Heh, I never knew!!
Brad
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