Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!hydra!hylka!tmottonen From: tmottonen@cc.helsinki.fi Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware Subject: Re: Adding a Hard Drive to PS/2 Mod 60 Message-ID: <4006.273ffa50@cc.helsinki.fi> Date: 13 Nov 90 13:51:12 GMT References: Organization: University of Helsinki Lines: 35 In article ,true@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Frederick True) writes: > I've been attentively following some of the discussion of adding hard drives > to various systems lately, but I'm still not sure I'm clear on this: if I > have a PS/2 Model 60 and want to add a second hard drive, is the existing > controller able to handle another drive or do I have to add another > controller on the bus? The Model 60 has one free hard drive bay, with a > connector which appears to go to the existing drive controller. From this, I > assume that I can simply buy another drive (of compatably type) and stick it > in the free bay. Is this a valid assumption? I have experience only with the 44MB model 60 (60-041), but here goes: The existing controller is a MFM controller and you can add another drive. You could buy an additional IBM harddrive, similar to the original drive (40MB, too many mil- liseconds ;-)), but you could also look for products from ot- her vendors. Just make sure the hd type is supported by the BIOS. If you like, I could dig up a list of the supported ty- pes. > Secondly, if it is the case that the current controller can handle another > drive, what type of drive can I put in there? In other words, what type of > interface is it? It's obviously not SCSI (although SCSI controllers are > available for the MCA bus), so exactly what is it and what types of drives > will it work with? MFM. BTW, you could consider a SCSI adapter and a 60 or 120 MB drive. You could get it cheap if you're a student (at least over here in Finland student discounts are noticeable). -- _________ Teemu Mottonen | | internet: tmottonen@cc.helsinki.Fi University of Helsinki | | bitnet: TMOTTONEN@FINUH Dept.of Computer Science |_________| decnet: HYLK::TMOTTONEN