> Hi all - I'm starting to look at options for expanding my HD capacity at
> home. I was wondering if there was a way to stick multiple HD's in my Duo
> Dock II? From opening up the case, there seems to be TONS of room in there
> (at least compared to the inside of a Duo ;)
>
> I'm pretty sure it will only take SCSI drives unless someone knows
> differently and large SCSI HDs are hard to come by so I wanted to cram a few
> smaller drives (< 5GB) in there if it was possible. Any ideas?
>
Technically there is room for only one drive in the DuoDock and it requires
a special mounting kit to install. Most of the room inside the dock is for
NuBus cards. I think it will hold up to a half height drive.
The kit includes a SCSI cable and power supply cable that you have to fish
through the Dock and they only have a connector at each end. It also has a
special bracket that allows the drive to hang suspended from the underside
of the top of the Dock (not the lid but the part that you remove to install
cards and such) next to the floppy drive.
However, if you really like a challenge, you could probably use the space
available for NuBus cards if you can find a SCSI ribbon cable that has
several connectors along it. You'll also need to splice additional power
connectors into the power supply line that comes with the drive installation
kit as it only has the one connector on it. You could probably get these
items at a local PC store (I've seen them locally at Computer Renaissance).
You should keep in mind that older systems may not recognize large format
drives and only OS8.1 on up will recognize the MacOS Extended Format. This
is the most efficient way to format drives larger than 1GIG.
Just out of curiosity, why do you want to install a several drives in the
DuoDock? You may find it much easier to daisy chain several external drives
given the difficulty of the above. But then, we all love a challenge ;^)
-makmac
PS. Yes DuoDock will only accept SCSI.
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