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From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Error 162 on PS-2/50?
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Date: 24 Dec 90 19:57:10 GMT
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I have an early PS/2 model 50 with an increasingly sick disk.  I managed to
reformat the disk using the low-level utility on the reference disk (the
one you get to with ctrl/A) and it seemed to work OK, albeit with more
errors than it likes.

But now it won't boot at all, gives me a 162 error at boot time.  Is this
a dead controller, a dead disk, or both?  I'm reluctant to put any money
into this thing, MCA disks are horrendously overpriced.  (I might pull the
hard disk and run it as a diskless client, I already have it on a network.)

Any advice on a 162, or failing that sources for reasonably priced disks
and controllers would be welcome.  The mod 50's disk controller has a
specially placed drive connector, and the drive has some special mounting
hardware to make it fit in the case -- replacement parts that don't fit
inside aren't very useful.

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John R. Levine, IECC, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 864 9650
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