Pete wrote:
> Hi
> I have an IBM 286, it looks like a newer version of the model 30. What I
> am trying to find out about is the conecter for the hard drive on the mother
> board. I can plug in an 20 mb drive from an other IBM 286 computer and it
> boots and recognises the drive OK.
> I want to put a larger drive in there, there is one a 3.5 inch bay
> available for another drive. Does any one know what kind of conecter this
> is on the mother board?
> The ide drives I have come across have 40 pins, if I counted the pins rite
> on the IBM mother board, it has 44 pins.
Look on the front, lower right of the face of the machine and there should be a
Type/Serial tag there. Drop me a direct note or one here and I can tell you more
about the machine. I have a feeling it's going to be an 8530-A21 machine, in
which case the 44 pin motherboard connector and cable will end in a card edge
connector that goes ont he back of a standard PS/2 style MCA drive. It is
probably MFM if the drive itself shows a type number, probably a type 30 for a
20mb or a 33 for a 30mb.
The machine has the microchannel card slots, right?
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