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From: kwan@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Gordon Kwan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: Hard drives for PS/2 model 30/286?
Keywords: PS/2, hard-drive, pain, suffering
Message-ID: <1991May4.021107.14047@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 4 May 91 02:11:07 GMT
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cs012051@cs.brown.edu (Dan Bornstein) writes:

>I would like to put a hard drive into my IBM PS/2 model
>30/286.  The sales people at GaTech patiently explain to
>me that it is impossible to do anything but sink $500 into
>an IBM 20 meg hard drive.  I do *not* believe them, though
>I wouldn't put it past IBM at this point.  Has anyone put
>a non-IBM hard drive into their PS/2 30/286 and haa any luck,
>without spending over $500?

>Thanks,

>Mark Curry

>(Virtually any suggestions welcome.)

I have a Seagate ST-157R 49Mb harddrive in my 30-286. I got it for about 
$375 or so (it's ben 9 months since I got it) at Elek-Tek in suburban Chicago.
It is a RLL drive, and is sold as a kit. You have to install a controller card
in order to run it. Installation was not very difficult.
>REPLY TO gt1096b@prism.gatech.edu OR POST, please do *not*
>reply to this sender (GaTech is fascist about network posting.)
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