31 Aug
1998
31 Aug
'98
5:21 a.m.
>
> I'm looking for information on IBM's proprietary IDE format. I have a
> 44-pin drive from a PS/2-30 (I have the CPU, too, but it has a 50Mb RLL
> on a card), and a 2.5" laptop drive with *46* pins plus master/slave,
> not the usual 44.
>
> I'm really trying to use the 2.5" drive (in a CD-32 w/SX-1 expansion,
> FWIW), but it came in an IBM housing to snap into an IBM laptop, with
> an IBM cable...
Watch out the PS/2 30 may be ESDI not IDE.
Unlikely. It's an 8086. AFAIK, it's an early XT IDE. One cable - 44 pins.
No power cable.