Re: Filesystem creation

Dan Olson
2002-05-13T14:22:29Z

> When it comes to hard drives, there's no such thing as a "plain
> XT". From experience, I've seen XT's with MFM, RLL, ESDI, (E)IDE and
> SCSI hard drives, and as the original XT didn't even have a hard drive
> interface, it's anybody's guess which is fitted.

Actually I think they came standard with a 10 meg full height MFM drive.
The origional PC didn't come with a hard drive, and some without floppies.

Dan

> I've just had a look on IBM's website, and the Model 30 reference
> diskette is for a 286 based system. I know that some of the PS/2 range
> were available with different processor options, and it's more than
> possible that the Model 30 is one such, but there's precious little
> about that machine on their website, so that didn't help.

I've got an 8086 based PS/2, a 25 I believe. It was a while ago, but I
had trouble with ELKS when I last tried it on that machines, the keyboard
wouldn't work.

Dan