28 Nov
1999
28 Nov
'99
9:23 p.m.
The cover comes off with 3 screws, two at the bottom corners, one at the cable
access door in the back. Pry CAREFULLY in the area of the handle to finish getting
the back off. The HD is them mounted in a cage dealie that has 2 or 3 screws which
are obvious for their locations. Remove the cage and drive and remove the card
edge conector when it allows.
By the way, unless someone has put in a secondary controller the HD is an IBM MCM
(ESDI essentially) drive. Easily found and up to 160mb capacity.
Bill Bradford wrote:
I took out my pair of these tonight to see what level
of functionality
they're in. One of them gives a "dead HD" error on bootup (see
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/6370/errores.html) which was
confirmed by downloading the boot/diagnostics disk and firing it up with
that (see http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/6370/models.html for
disks, if you've got a PS/2 that needs them). Turns out one of these also
has the 300/1200/2400 modem and the PS/2 (MCA-bus, woah, in a portable!)
SCSI card w/cache (its got two SIMM sticking on it, even).
Right now I cant figure out how to get the HD out of the machine so I
can swap it with the one from the other box (or possibly replace it
with another IBM drive, these look to be the proprietaary PS/2 card-edge-
connector HDs).
Anybody got one or more of these machines that they'd like to "dispose"
of, if I pay shipping? I love the red plasma display, and plan to use
this box (if I can get it fully working with a HD) on my packet radio
station.
I've got this other semi-DOA (no screen display, no beeps, but power lights)
70-386, and in the garage somewhere, a complete (no manuals, but it boots and
works, and has the I/O expansion "slice") IBM PC Convertible laptop, with
power supply in IBm canvase carrying case, if anybody's interested and wants
to swap something for them.
I've also got this MCA-bus SCSI controller card w/cache, if that would prove
useful to anyone... (I cant use it, it has the funky IBM-proprietary external
SCSI connector on back).
Bill (man, plasma displays are wonderful, wish I could find more machines
that used them.. I've already got a couple of Toshiba 3x00 laptops that
i use as VT100 terminals; anybody else know of portable machines that
used similar displays?)
--
Bill Bradford * mrbill(a)mrbill.net / http://www.mrbill.net
mrbill(a)sunhelp.org / http://www.sunhelp.org
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