If you;re running Windows, it might be easier to use Window's drive compression. You have to "mount" each compressed drive to access its contents and each drive can have a password. Douglas Wood Software Engineer dbwood@kc.rr.com Home of the EPICIS Development System for the PIC and SX http://www.piclist.com/techref/member/DW--RA4 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Robinson" To: Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 10:52 PM Subject: [PIC]to switch between 4 hard drives > I want to put 4 hard drives into one computer and use > a keypad, a PIC, and a relay to switch the power > source between the 4 drives. each drive will have its > own code number. This is so one person cant get into > the other drives without knowing its code. I could use > some help on all aspects of this, hardware and maybe > some snipits of code. Thanks for your time. > > Scott. > > ===== > The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new > > discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." > > -- Isaac Asimov > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads