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- From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth)
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- Subject: Re: PS2 hard drives
- Date: 12 Nov 1992 18:23:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.171030.4081@asbt01.gedlab.allied.com> b97459@asbt01.gedlab.allied.com (JIM JOHNSON) writes:
- >
- > I have a friend with an IBM PS2 model 30 with a 20 meg hard drive. As
- >you can guess the disk is full. My question is can an outboard hard drive be
- >connected to this system like a second hard drive in an AT class computer.
-
- Yes, you can attach a serial-port drive to it, or you could get a SCSI
- adapter that will accommodate an external drive. Probably both of these
- options would be more expensive than selling your old drive and buying
- a bigger one, even though PS/2 drives cost a ridiculous amount. I have
- used the portable Bernoulli 90 external with their serial-scsi interface
- kit with PS/2's and that works fine too.
-
- You might find your best option is to get a copy of superstor or stacker.
- A couple people were selling copies of stacker over in misc.forsale.computers.
- pc-clone or something like that a couple days ago. I think $50 was the
- asking price. If you are careful you can get good results out of those
- packages. If you make silly mistakes you can destroy everything, of course.
-
- >What
- >format hard drive does this beast use,(MFM,RLL,SCSI,?).
-
- MFM
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