Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!masnet!rose!chris.chambers
From: chris.chambers@rose.uucp (CHRIS CHAMBERS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Can I install external
Message-ID: <33b360c9f4e4280521fc@rose.uucp>
Date: 12 Apr 91 00:57:00 GMT
Organization: Rose Media, ON, CANADA
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>> last i inquired, it was not possible to install an external IBM 5.25
>> inch drive as drive B: on the IBM PS/2 Model 55.  I can only guess

It is not possible to install it using the IBM adapter and diskette, but
it is possible using add-ons from other vendors.  The IBM rationale for
reserving the B: drive was so that you could still perform a copy from
A: to B:, with B: being a 3.5" drive.

There are three or four vendors who provide external 5.25" drives,
either 360KB or 1.2meg versions, and most of them get installed as the
B: drive.  I am sure for a volume order, maybe more than 20 but who
knows, IBM will even package the whole deal for you, including these
drives (for a price off course).

>> It is a major pain for us and is the reason why we are not going to
>> buy 20+ IBM model 55s for a new lab we are setting up.

No more excuses now (-:
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