flo@doitcr.doit.sub.org (Florian Reichl) (11/14/90)
I have an IBM PS/2 Model 80 with a 40 MB harddisk. I want to add another harddisk to the system. As far as I know the 80-041 has a ST-506 controller, but I may be wrong. Which harddisks can be connected to the system? How shall I then setup the system? Am I limited to a 40 MB harddisk or may a install a 60 MB 3.5" HD also? Thanks for helping me with this! With best greetings from Bavaria -- Florian Florian Reichl, Fliederstr. 21, W-8035 Gauting, Germany, Tel. ++49(89)8505101
frank@ut-emx.uucp (Frank Abernathy) (11/16/90)
In article <1535@doitcr.doit.sub.org>, flo@doitcr.doit.sub.org (Florian Reichl) writes: > I have an IBM PS/2 Model 80 with a 40 MB harddisk. > I want to add another harddisk to the system. > With best greetings from Bavaria -- Florian > Florian Reichl, Fliederstr. 21, W-8035 Gauting, Germany, Tel. ++49(89)8505101 I can't watch this go by any more.. :^) (recently posted items along this line NOT included.) ALL of the IBM model 60 and 80 PS/2 systems we've looked at have had ESDI INTERFACES, NOT MFM. The connectors used in the IBM box ARE JUST like ST412/506 MFM guys, you know, one of them 34 pin the other 20 pin, but are ESDI..... AT LEAST ON OUR MACHINES. To find out what you have for a controller, run you reference diskette. Look into the change configuration options, select the one that talks about viewing your current configuration, use the up/down arrows and get to where it shows your drive configuration. IF it says MFM=it is, if it says SCSI=it is, and if it says ESDI=it is. Let the machine tell YOU what IT thinks it has. Relying on connector familiarity is not always going to work. have fun later frank -- Frank Abernathy, University of Texas at Austin, frank@ut-emx.utexas.edu Work: (512)-471-3216 Home: (512)-244-0625 (ans. mach always on...)