Yesterday I was booting my PS/2 286 (with 386 upgrade). Since the computer
stopped after ca 1 minute (complete power shut down) I took out a screw
driver and started taking it apart.
This wouldn't have mattered much if it wasn't for the fact that I also
removed the speaker (I was going to try and see how well it would work in
my own PC instead - older ones are often of "better" quality). To make a
long story short the battery for the CMOS was on the speaker (I wondered
why I was so big).
Since I now lost my CMOS settings I needed to get them back. I downloaded
the PS/2 refrence disk (since I missplaced my earlier download) and started
working on it. Soon I realised I needed to know what "type" my second HD was.
Now I'm desperate, I could guess my way across the setup - but with a max
of 230 diffrent types to test and ca 80 seconds for each test it might take
me a while.
There must be some way to get the data from the HD itself - I did find a
program that would help me ID my MCA-16 cards, but that doesn't help me at
this point. (It probably will later when I'll ID my NIC).
The facts I have are these:
Type: ESDI or MFM (diffrent sources claim diffrent)
Size: 85MB (it's formatted for 65 - how do I perform a low-level format?)
(it's 71 as max when formatted)
Manufacturer: Micropolis (1986)
Modell: 1335
Cylinders: 1024
Heads: 8
Sectors: 17
Bytes/sector: 512
Now there's a match for these specs if it had been a IDE drive (type 29 in
older BIOSes) but that isn't right in the IBM PS/2 world. Does anyone know
how I can find the correct type?
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