saba@tellabs.com (Bruce Sabalaskey) (10/05/90)
I have some old 360 K double-sided double density 40 track floppy drives. Does anyone know if and how I could use these with my PS/2 model 70? I know that the PC-AT/XT floppy controller cards do not work in PS/2's. But I don't want to spend $400 bucks for an IBM controller card and disk drive. I've seen clones for about $250, but I would rather use my existing drives which are currently collecting dust. Any Ideas? Bruce Sabalaskey ...!tellab5!tellab1!saba
mjlanham@eos.ncsu.edu (MICHAEL JAY LANHAM) (10/06/90)
In article <4059@tellab5.tellabs.com>, saba@tellabs.com (Bruce Sabalaskey) writes: > I have some old 360 K double-sided double density 40 track floppy > drives. Does anyone know if and how I could use these with my PS/2 > model 70? I know that the PC-AT/XT floppy controller cards do not work > in PS/2's. But I don't want to spend $400 bucks for an IBM controller > card and disk drive. I've seen clones for about $250, but I would > rather use my existing drives which are currently collecting dust. > > Any Ideas? > > Bruce Sabalaskey > ...!tellab5!tellab1!saba Unless you can find a third party vendor that makes/sells a controller with Micro-channel (MCA) buses, I do not think you will be able to use those drives.