Classic != IBM AT

From: Alice Blakeman <blakeman_at_creative-net.net>
Date: Mon Nov 2 05:52:22 1998

How are they MFM if you can pull a 30mb drive and slip in a 120 and it starts
without resetting the parameters or even running the setup disk? Now I think the
20mb with the narrower card edge may have been MFM as yo have to tell setup what
they type number it is during setup. The wide card edge type are completely drop
in an run. There are two type of controllers on the 50's as well, the one for the
narrow type and one for the wide type.

SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com wrote:

> the drive was indeed mfm. the models 50 and 70 had drives that connected to a
> riser card which then went to the planar. there were no cables on the 50 or
> 70.
>
> david
>
> In a message dated 11/2/98 10:30:17 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
> roblwill_at_usaor.net writes:
>
> > The PS/2 Model 30=286 didn't have a cable going to the riser card in it,
> > nor was it an MCA machine. It was an ISA machine, and The HD plugged into
> > the motherboard via ribbon cable. I'm not even sure if it was an ESDI
> > drive. I think it was just an MFM that had everything (including power) on
> > one cable.
> >
> > -Jason
Received on Mon Nov 02 1998 - 05:52:22 GMT