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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...



	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.