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- From: jc7o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joo C. Chung)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
- Subject: Re: PS/2 harddrive upgrade
- Message-ID: <728010451.13813.0@unix12.andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 15:07:31 GMT
- Article-I.D.: unix12.728010451.13813.0
- References: <1993Jan23.224538.20072@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- <1993Jan24.195937.10569@odin.diku.dk>
- Organization: Junior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- In-Reply-To: <1993Jan24.195937.10569@odin.diku.dk>
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- In message <1993Jan24.195937.10569@odin.diku.dk>,
- joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen) writes:
- >grickett@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Gregory A Ricketts) writes:
- >
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >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"
- This is not entirely true. The hard drive controller in some of the 55sx (
- (if not all) are a modified ESDI. You can't take any IDE or ESDI drive and
- just stick it in. Not to mention...if you want to stick in a second drive
- then you need to remove your floppy disk drive. You can replace your internal
- 60 MB hard disk though. There are companies that advertise internal hard disks
- for PS/2s. Just flipping through some of my magazines, here are some...
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- General Technics 1-800-GT-SALE-8
-
- ok...well..couldn't find that many just browsing but there are more. Just look
- in Computer Shopper.
-
- Joo.
-