On-Topic -ish? MCA and OS/2 questions...

[Doc Shipley]

John Boffemmyer IV wrote:

> Looking at possibly tossing OS/2 on a PS/2 MCA machine I have (both over 
> 10 years, discontinued and of interest, at least to me). The machine is 
> a model 8570 with an add-on scsi card to an external enclosure with 4gb 
> of storage (various size drives) and a 2x scsi cd-rom. this mca machine 
> however, only has 1.44mb floppy support and a built in esdi 60mb hard 
> drive (system doesn't want to work with the scsi, even when the esdi 
> drive is removed). the system has 6-8mb ram (not currently sure, didn't 
> look last time it was booted) and a 386dx 20 with a 16/4 db9 token ring 
> nic and built in xga video. was thinking either os/2 warp of some 
> version or linux. any ideas or suggestions as beating away at it alone 
> seems to net me nothing much lately?

   You'll need the MCA config files ("@*.adf") for the SCSI controller. 
  The MCA Mafia pages will likely point you to what you need, including 
matching your adapter to the ADF disk.

   They move around, so I don't have a current URL.  Google should get 
you there.


	Doc