jumper@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Michael Lanham) (02/26/91)
Hi, I just recently bought and found I cannot use a HD from a PS/2 50. The drive is suppossedly 20 MB but I still have several questions since I put the drive up forsale and need to answer questions of those inquiring to buy the drive. QUESTIONS: 1) The drive is 3.5 HH but appears to have the controller card built onto the drive package on a card mounted between the drive and the mounting rails. It is taller than the drive in my model 30 and but probably still considered HH. Is this the controller ? 2) The drive connectors are non-standard from any of the HDs that i have seen. There is no separate power cable. The connector is just 25 copper(?) contacts on each side of the board with the last two separated from the others by a split in the board. Is this connector standard to IBM? I have a different connector on the HD on my PS/2 30 so I do not know. 3) Is this drive a MFM, RLL, or what? I cannot hook it to my machine so I cannot find out. The Part Number on it is 90X6806 TYPE 30. The serial(?) number on the front of the drive is N000776706. Does this help anybody identify the type of drive I have? I need the answers to these questions since I am putting the drive back up forsale for the $50 I bought it for plus $7 in S&H and I need to answer the questions of people asking me. He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. --- Sir William Drummond Michael Lanham mjlanham@eos.ncsu.edu & jumper@.catt.ncsu.edu