From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Olson Subject: Re: Filesystem creation Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 07:22:29 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020513071946.L62549-100000@agora.rdrop.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org > 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