panisset@mcgill-vision.uucp (Jean-Francois Panisset) (02/23/90)
We have a PS/2 model 80 (xxxx80-071) with a 70Mb ESDI drive which is hopelessly full. We have been looking around for an upgrade to something like a 300Mb disk: even with the educational discount, IBM seems to think that $7000 is not an obscenely inflated price to charge for such a beast :-( Anyway, here are a few questions I am looking for answers to (please e-mail: I will summarize to the net): 1-Who makes reliable 300Mb ESDI drives? I got interesting quotes on MiniScribe and Micropolis, but it seems that both of these companies are now out of business (I know for sure about MiniScribe, but Micropolis was news to me). I heard that Priam is also out: who is left then? 2-Are there restrictions about installing a third-party ESDI drive in a PS/2 Model 80? I know the controller is ESDI, so that should not be a problem. I see the biggest problem in getting proper mounting hardware, but at this point we might be taking out the original 70Mb drive, so we could use its mounting hardware for the new drive. 3-(Somewhat related to 2) Will I be able to use standard disk-formatting software such as SpeedStor on the PS/2 ? Thanks for any info anyone might provide... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jean-Francois Panisset "Oui Allo!" INET: panisset@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu Madame Brossard, 1988 UUCP: ...!mcgill-vision!panisset