21 Dec
2005
21 Dec
'05
7:37 p.m.
Interesting, My CSC Hard Drive Bible VIII indicates
there are 3
different 8438 drives.
My book says
8438/8438F, 32 Megs formatted, 4 heads, 615 Cyl, 26 sectors,
68/40 MSecond timing RLL
If he has one of these, then ok.
Then there is a third
8438XT, 31 Megs formatted, 4 heads, 615 Cyl, 26 sectors, 68
MSecond timing XT-IDE
XT-IDE? What's that? I didn't know that there was
an XT compatible IDE
controller, except a few rare and expensive ones.
Doesn't the Model 30 have a built in disk
controller that you have to
disable is use an ISA disk controller? I think there is IDE on the
motherboard. You might need the actual PS2 setup disks for the model
30. Is yours a 8086 or 80286 model 30? Most of the PS2 line had their
own set up floppy disk.
Good questions all. I don't see how he can proceed if
he hasn't got the
setup disk and figured out for sure if there's a controller on board and
that he's disabled it.
Paxton