21 Sep
2009
21 Sep
'09
10:54 p.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 9/22/09, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at
gmail.com> wrote:
The full width edge connector drive was the one on the Mod 70, wasn't
it? I thought the Mod 30-8086 came with only two floppy drives? Wasn't
the Mod 30 hard drive option a 3rd party jobbie?
Peace... Sridhar
Zane H. Healy wrote:
That sounds familiar. The PS/2 Model 30 (not 286) came with a 3.5"
ESDI drive - with a full-width edge connector. When the disk on the
one at work got too crowded, I replaced it with a 50 MB ST412 ("MFM")
disk and ISA controller, ignoring the motherboard disk controller. I
remember the size because it was too large for a single partition
under DOS 3.x, so we had a new "D:" drive that caused some confusion
for some of the users (they had only experienced machines with 30MB
and smaller drives up to that point.) Wow, there is something I never knew. There were
2.5" ESDI HD's?!?! I
didn't even know there were any smaller than 5.25".
Come to think of it,
didn't the PS/2 Model 70 have a 3.5" ESDI?