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- From: nsx@cba.ufl.edu (Mark Sterling)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
- Subject: Re: PS/2 harddrive upgrade
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 17:48:46 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.195937.10569@odin.diku.dk> joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen) writes:
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- >grickett@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Gregory A Ricketts) writes:
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- >>My Uncle has a veterinary clinic in Waverly, Ohio. He presently runs
- >>VBOSS on a PS/2 Model 55 SX, and needs to upgrade from his present 60MB
- >>harddrive to ~120MB harddrive. I know very little about PS/2s, I don't even
- >>know if this is a 286, or 386. I have *heard* that it can be difficult to
- >>upgrade a PS/2 harddrive. My question, can this be done, and what
- >>harddrives are compatible with this make of PS/2? Thanks for any
- >>information. Greg.
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- >According to my info, this is a 16Mhz 80386XS with and IDE controller and
- >2 disk-drive bays in the machine. In that case, you can buy almost any
- >drive. I think the cheapest will be to buy a non-IBM drive (IBM usually
- >uses Maxtor!) . It should be possible to use the existing 60
- >meg drive together with a larger drive...
-
- >Christian
- >--
- >M. Christian Holmgreen / joker@diku.dk / mochmch@uts.uni-c.dk
- >M.Sc. student, University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Computer Science
- >"Human errors can only be avoided if one can avoid the use of humans"
-
-
- True, it does have two bays, one is taken by the 1.44 3.5" floppy, the other
- by the 60. That is why he will have to replace the 60. There is no way he
- can add to the 60 INTERNALLY. Trust me, I have the machine he is talking
- about with the same hard disk.
-