Speaking of PS/2s...

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Thu Dec 20 14:06:49 2001

On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Tony Duell wrote:

> The IBM PS/2 Hardware Interface TechRef contains a pinout of the hard
> disk connector. The signals look to be almost a subset of the MCA
> signals. It certainly doesn't look like an ESDI interface.
>
> I guess you could call it 'IDE', but it's not the same interface as is
> used on more normal PCs.

Maybe this is an early nonstandard IDE implementation? We all know too
well how IBM liked to do things "their way"... We wouldn't have PS/2
hardware at all if IBM had stuck to the then emerging standards of the
time.

-Toth
Received on Thu Dec 20 2001 - 14:06:49 GMT