How many drives on a Mac 512K?

[Phil Beesley]

Has anyone tried daisy chaining more than one external floppy drive 
onto a Mac 512K? The Hard Disk 20 has a daisy chain port and the manual 
explicitly states that the 512K can use two HD20s. I've never heard of 
anyone using this setup but I'll accept Apple's word that it works. The 
Apple 3.5" 800K floppy drive also has a daisy chain port (which is 
explicitly supported by Apple for using two 800KB drives with the Apple 
II family) and a single drive works fine on the 512K when the HD20 INIT 
is used. It would be handy to use two 800KB drives if my HD20 died so 
that I have a massive 2MB of storage available. The main concern that I 
have is drawing enough power for two floppy drives through the external 
floppy drive port (the HD20 drive has its own power supply).

Phil
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