=== Miniscribe disk drive infos ===

[Paxton Hoag]

Interesting, My CSC Hard Drive Bible VIII indicates there are 3
different 8438 drives.
My book says

8438/8438F,  32 Megs formatted,   4 heads,  615 Cyl,  26 sectors, 
68/40 MSecond timing    RLL

Then there is a third
8438XT,  31 Megs formatted,   4 heads,  615 Cyl,  26 sectors,  68
MSecond timing    XT-IDE

As to the Western digital 1002A-WX1,  it is an 8 bit MFM controller
for two hard drives only. The default jumpers are W3, W4-2 & 3, W6-2 7
3,W8-2 & 3, S1-8 (AT mode) To format use G=C800:5 as you already know.

Hope this helps.

Doesn't the Model 30 have a built in disk controller that you have to
disable is use an ISA disk controller? I think there is IDE on the
motherboard. You might need the actual PS2 setup disks for the model
30. Is yours a 8086 or 80286 model 30? Most of the PS2 line had their
own set up floppy disk.

Paxton
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Paxton Hoag
Astoria, OR
USA