[rescue] Re: Drive Reliability (was SCSI drive for sale atbuy.com)

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:

> >    Not exactly...they don't plug into a system bus, they just use
> > card-edge connectors for the back of the drive bays.  These drives
> > were ESDI, I thought, but I could be wrong.
>
> That's true of some, maybe most PS/2 machines, but the PS/2 mod 30 286 I
> have is an ISA machine and the drive hooks up with a cable.  The drive
> does have the weird card-edge connector, though.

I think that might be an aftermarket change.  I have my PS/2 Model 30 that
I bought new from IBM and it has the riser.

Peace...  Sridhar