=== Miniscribe disk drive infos ===

[Tom Peters]

> 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
If he has one of these, then ok.
> Then there is a third
> 8438XT,  31 Megs formatted,   4 heads,  615 Cyl,  26 sectors,  68
> MSecond timing    XT-IDE
XT-IDE? What's that? I didn't know that there was an XT compatible IDE
controller, except a few rare and expensive ones.

> 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.
Good questions all. I don't see how he can proceed if he hasn't got the
setup disk and figured out for sure if there's a controller on board and
that he's disabled it.
> Paxton