Amiga 1010 and 1011 drive linking issue?

[save2600]

I've linked both in the past successfully, but with a beefy supply. I bet you are experiencing power drain since you probably have other peripherals hooked into the A500. Ram expansion, accelerator, etc. BTW: the stock power supply on the A1200 and A500... we were all warned back in the day to not be adding more than 1 external Commodore drive and probably why the drives and/or Amiga have built in protection against overload. Most of the 3rd party companies released much more power efficient drives...

[save2600]

OK ! The explanation is very clear now ! So the pass-through port on the A1010 can only be used for self-powered floppy drive (not the A1011 for example).

This is incorrect!!

There's no such thing as a "self-powered" A1011 or A1010.  :lol:

When I had my A1200 and two drives, I had an A500 power supply hooked to it. When I had my last A500 and used 2 external drives, I had a PeeCee power supply.

Currently, my A1000 with its regular power supply powers 2 external drives, an ICD AdSpeed chip AND an external 2MB RAM board.

You're supposed to be allowed to hook up to three external drives to an Amiga computer. All the big box Miggy's can handle 'em anyway. You guys with wedged-desktop computers need heavier duty power supplies is all.