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From: cyamamot@aludra.usc.edu (Cliff Yamamoto)
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Subject: Re: repost: Hardcard in a Model 30-286?
Summary: Don't waste your time
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Date: 29 Aug 90 19:55:27 GMT
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In article <1990Aug28.125529.8486@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US> jimd@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US (Jim Drosen) writes:
>I've had no luck installing a hardcard in a Model 30-286 which has the
>standard 20 meg internal drive.  The docs for the hardcard are lost.
>It has an OMTI controller and a Miniscribe drive.  I can't seem to get a
>hold of OMTI's phone number.  I've tried various jumper settings, but I
>keep getting 1701 errors.  Is this whole exercise doomed?  Has anyone
>else made a hardcard coexist with the 20 meg drive?  Anyone have 
>OMTI's number?

Don't waste your time.  My friend went through this whole ordeal a couple
of months ago.  He bought an OMTI/Miniscribe hardcard (forget the model)
but it did 1:1.  We even had the manual which stated that the card should
work in a 30-286.  Well we tried everything!  I mean we tried all iterations
of the jumpers on there.  Primary/Secondary address, Enable/Disable BIOS, etc.
We just couldn't get it to work.

So we drove 40 miles to where the dealer was (since he had originally bought
it at our local computer swap).  We *even* took his computer for good
measure.  Maybe the unit he bought was bad.  NO LUCK.  They tried another
one and another one.  We even tried the cheaper 1:2 model.  NO GO.

Getting desparate, they even tried some 8-bit hardcards.  No luck with those
either.  As I mentioned in comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware, the *ONLY* time we got
something working was with a Future Domain SCSI adapter and an external SCSI
Seagate.  So as everyone has mention before, SCSI and MFM will work TOGETHER,
even in a crappy 30-286.  He got his money back instead.

My friend is still so disgusted, he doesn't even want to consider getting
a cheap SCSI.  Anyone want a PS/2 30-286???

Cliff