Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!rutgers!mcnc!ncsuvx!news
From: bank@lea.ncsu.edu (Dave The DM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: What is a PS/2 30/286 hard disk?
Message-ID: <1990Aug23.163132.23004@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 23 Aug 90 16:31:32 GMT
References: <NELSON.90Aug20132451@image.clarkson.edu>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Leazar Hall MicroVax II (CSCLEA), NCSU, Raleigh NC
Lines: 19

In article <NELSON.90Aug20132451@image.clarkson.edu> nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) writes:
>I just got off the phone from IBM's dealer support line.  They said that the
>PS/2 30/286 hard disk was a ST-506 drive.  However, the salesman assured us
>that it was an IDE drive.  Who's lying?
>
>--
>--russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu])  Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667
>We won the cold war.  The Russians spent trillions defending their stuff,
>then they found that they didn't have any stuff.  Will we avoid the same trap?

   The salesman. But then they do that a lot. Most of 'em, anyway.

   I would think IBM would know what's in their hardware.


   The only way for the salesman to be correct is if his company has
done some mods to the PS/2. This is possible.

                                                       Dave the DM