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From: mrhagger@athena.mit.edu (Michael R Haggerty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Adding hard drive to PS/2 Model 50 (clarification)
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Date: 2 Nov 90 16:47:51 GMT
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Clarification of a couple of points:
>    $389.00     Seagate ST-1096N 84MB 20ms SCSI hard disk, 5.25" disk with
>                Disk Manager
The hard drive is of course 3 1/2"; but the shipment also includes a
5 1/4" diskETTE which contains Disk Manager (a software package for
formatting, partitioning etc. the hard disk).  Hopefully you all have some
method for getting data from 5 1/4" diskettes into your PS/2's; the
program is not copy protected, so that is not a problem.
>and $249.00     Future Domain MCS350 Microchannel SCSI controller, 50-pin
>                ribbon cable, 4-pin power cable, 3.25" disk with hardware
>                driver software
Again, I refer to a diskETTE which came with the shipment--this one is 3 1/2"
and contains a hardware driver necessary to configure the system.
    To be exact, I am not sure how the diskettes, cables, etc are bundled with
the drive and controller.  The invoice only listed the two main items, and I
don't know what you get if you only order one or the other.
    As for chronology, I called PF Solutions and told them about the modifications, but sent the details via snail-mail and they should have them by the beginning of next week at the latest.

Michael Haggerty
mrhagger@athena.mit.edu