On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Tothwolf wrote:
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Doc wrote:
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com wrote:
The 8570 you have is not bad, but way too small
and not really easy as far as
drive expansion goes. put the max amount of 16meg memory in it and os2 will
thank you.
That requires an expansion board, right? The little info I can find
suggests that 3 2M SIMMs is max, onboard.
I thought I was the only PS/2 fan here :P
I was one of the developers who worked on Linux/MCA.
Depending on the model of your board, you could have a
max of 6mb or 8mb.
To add more memory, you would need an expansion board. One of the better
boards I that I used to use in model 60 machines was made by Kingston and
took up to 4 72pin simms.
I believe the BXX series could do 16 MB on the board. Plus the 72-pin
SIMMs weren't your standard plain-vanilla ones. They had PS/2 Presence
Detect (PPD) feature on them.
One of the best non IBM references I ever found for
the PS/2 line is a
book called "Upgrading and Repairing PCs", written by Scott Mueller, and
published by QUE. The last edition that had the PS/2 info in it was the
4th edition. I never owned a hardcopy of the 4th edition, but I have an
electronic version of it that came on cdrom with the 10th edition. I
completely wore out my 2nd and 3rd editions of the book. (If anyone has a
4th edition in good shape that they don't want, I'd be more than willing
to pay shipping.)
I have a better source. I have the internal IBM technical manuals and
schematics for every PS/2 ever made, including rare ones like the N51SX,
and the 43SL.
Peace... Sridhar