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From: slezakm@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Mark Slezak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Low end PS/2 hard disks...
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Date: 25 Feb 89 03:00:58 GMT
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Reply-To: slezakm@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU.UUCP (Mark Slezak)
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Hello -
 
I am looking for a hard disk, and while this seems to be a
fairly normal task I have found a way to make it interesting...
  
My computer is an IBM PS/2 Model 30 (ok, ok stop that giggling
now) and it appears to have a SCSI hard disk controler on it. I
have the two floppy model, yet somewhere I swear I read that the
Model 30 has a SCSI hard disk controler on it. 
   
Questions:
    
	Am I correct? Is this 25 odd pin connector on the
	motherboard a SCSI controler?
		
        Who makes SCSI hard disks for the IBM in sizes under
	100Megs? (An 80 would do nicely, but a 40 would fit my
        budget better...)
				
        Does the Model 30 have the system power to run an external
	SCSI drive or do I have to get an internal one?

My desire for a SCSI drive is due to the fact I only have three slots (which
are currently filled (VGA, Modem, Imaging Board,) and I'd hate to give one
up for a drive controler...) Although if this is my only option, then out goes
the interal modem. 

But if the odd pinned critter isn't a SCSI port does anyone know *WHAT* it is?

Thank's
Mark.
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