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Re: PS/2 harddrive upgrade

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From: Mark Sterling
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:48
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In article <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"


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.
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